{"product_id":"garden-ruin","title":"Garden Ruin","description":"Amazon.com\n\nSometimes the worst thing you can do is be very consistently great with your art. Calexico's failure to rise beyond cult status can perhaps be attributed to the fact that their albums are such subtle Whitman Samplers of Tex-Mex-and-kitchen-sink tastefulness. Garden Ruin, the group's poppiest album to date, just might change their socio-economic standing for the better. It's produced by JD Foster, but none of the things you love about Calexico--the sun-baked guitar, smoky vocals, mariachi horns, woozy lyrics--have left. Those elements are just grafted to crispier, more carefully delineated harmonies and multi-tracked backing vocals higher in the mix. By the album's end, on the slow-burning anthem \"All Systems Red,\" Joey Burns buzzes and howls with a force never shown before on album. It's what Sigur Ros might sound like if they came from Arizona, and it's truly excellent. --Mike McGonigal\n\nProduct Description\n\nThis is a more accessible album than previous efforts. Where the open blue skies of the landscapes they chronicled before were tempered by the smoky dark blues of their jazz influences, \"Garden Ruin\" is musically brighter. Lyrically too, the album takes a left turn in which contemporary rather than mythical America is addressed. Put succinctly, \"Garden Ruin\" is where Calexico fill those dusty, empty landscapes they documented with a big, big sound.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B000EOTUY4\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: GBV.B000EOTUY4.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Calexico|Dan Coleman|Joey Burns|John Convertino|J.D. Foster|Paul Niehaus\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Audio cd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Good Books Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56455971799345,"sku":"GBV.B000EOTUY4.G","price":4.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0914\/3730\/2065\/files\/B000EOTUY4-0.jpg?v=1790277090","url":"https:\/\/goodbookscompany.org\/products\/garden-ruin","provider":"Good Books Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}