Roots & Crowns

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  2006

  James

  The best Califone albums sound handmade in the best sense: fractured folk songs assembled from tape hiss, junkyard percussion, electronic drift, and weathered acoustic textures. On Root & Crowns, Tim Rutili creates an atmosphere where decay and beauty constantly overlap. The songs feel rural and futuristic simultaneously, like old American music mutating in real time. Few records build such rich emotional worlds from damaged sounds.