Calexico’s new album, Seasonal Shift, is less of a Christmas album and more of a cross-cultural seasonal celebration. The themes of Seasonal Shift are based around that familiar end-of-year feeling of reflection, of ceremony and of recognition of the year gone by and changes it brought for better and for worse.
Seasonal Shift contains a few cover songs, including classics by John Lennon with Yoko Ono and Tom Petty, as well as a few special guests and a whole lot of good will. It’s heartfelt but fun, and earnest but celebratory. It features Calexico in an assortment of guises, referencing Portuguese fado and old Mexican folk songs, from the stripped back two-man skeleton to the full party of international collaborators, including artists like Bombino, Gaby Moreno, Gisela João, Nick Urata (DeVotchKa), and Camilo Lara.
Seasonal Shift is out now.
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