No CD
Doolicity Sent the CD case, but, no CD was inside. It was shipped empty. Three emails to them has had zero results. I do not recommend this company.

What we Want!!
When we think of Calexico everyone can be asked what are your expectations? these guys are not going to fill your portable stereo with pop but the groove is more like that of the Jamaican reggae producers. I love this album, it's my 'haunt the room with desert' album and can see now what these guys contributed to Giant Sand.

very disappointing
This is boring, there is no theme, there are no highs and lows and the cd just aimlessly meanders.

I have seen Calexico on Austin City Limits and one of the late night talk shows (Leno? Letterman? Conan?). They were fascinating both visually and sonically. I have several live downloads and they put on a cool show. I made my own compilation and the disc is awesome.

This cd just does not do it for me. There are no bad songs on it but...there is hardly anything exciting, nothing really knocks my socks off.

This may be one of those bands that need to be experienced live rather than through the studio.

This hardly resembles the totally cool band I saw perform on Austin City Limits

The Black Light
Awesome, Awesome cd!! If you like slow instrumental music that has a mexican sound you'll adore this. The song Over Your Shoulder is by far my favorite, it was worth the money just for that song. There are some songs that have vocals as well. If you put the cd on it kind of just sweeps you to another place.

Feel good music...sort of.
This album just makes me feel great, not ecstatic and energized 'great', but rather soothed and contented 'great'. The music and lyrics evoke conflicts of the self with society and of the moment with eternity. They illustrate the perfection (by that I mean 'completeness', not necessarily 'flawlessness') of the seemingly simple, perhaps even mundane moments of life, while at the same time recognizing the immense world in which individual lives exist and the grand purpose that each life has. In doing so, the album explores frontiers, those places between humanity and the vast unfamiliar world where everything is strange and new, where there are seemingly endless possibilities and a man has obligations to no one but himself. That feeling of hope and purpose and independence and risk associated with a frontier is what feels so good when I listen to this album. Also, it just sounds really awesome.