CALEXICO's influences have traditionally come from sources as diverse as Portuguese Fado, 50's jazz, Gypsy or Romany music and its offshoots, 60's surf and twang, from Link Wray to Duane Eddy, to the spaghetti western epics of Ennio Morricone, but on their new record Garden Ruin, they were heading somewhere else, filling those dusty, empty landscapes they've long documented with a big, big sound.

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