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Califone

Villagers

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Part experimental indie and part '70s soft rock, Califone's first record in three years finds creative force Tim Rutili reaching new levels of harmony, ...
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Roots & Crowns (2022 reissue)

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“Uniting where you come from - your roots - with what you strive to be or what you reinvent yourself to become - crowns,” explains Tim Rutili.
The Villager's Companion

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  1. every amnesia movie
  2. burn the sheets.bleach the books
  3. a blood red corduroy 3 piece suit
  4. jaco pastorius
  5. gas station roller doggs
  6. antenna mtn death blanket
  7. the bullet b4 the sound
  8. family swan
  9. crazy as a loon

Califone

The Villager's Companion

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    Released: 14th Feb 2025

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Like a passenger riding shotgun on a road trip, 'The Villagers Companion' offers its own unique perspective and story to tell.

Featuring tracks recorded alongside last year’s acclaimed villagers, TVC captures the miles between the start and destination—the faded gas station pit stops, the plastic saint statue stuck to the dashboard for safe travels or luck. It embodies the essence of the journey without the burden of driving—the experience of the ride itself. The album takes us through the heart of Califone’s magic: reverb-drenched piano chords, electronic whirs, and layers of experimental noise.

Guided by Tim Rutili’s abstract, fragmented lyrics—both strange and familiar—delivered through his warm, well-worn vocals, it creates an experience as evocative as it is haunting. Often passing through what seem to be the spaces between radio frequencies, the stations never meant to be heard. Crackles of static, feedback loops, and fleeting signals bloom into meditative moments, with each sound given space to breathe, unravel, and shimmer in slow decay.

The result resonates deeply, transforming what might be noise into something profound, hypnotic, and totally immersive. As with villagers, Rutili and company continue to explore what it means to get lost while surrounded by modern technology. Like a ghost in a machine or a whispered prayer stuck in a telephone line, Califone adds soul—be it damned or saved. And they do so with the kind of transformative magic granted perhaps only to artists a quarter of a century into their craft. The kind that turns a photograph into a tableau, or any darkened space with a microphone into a makeshift confessional. A song into a hymn, and a hymn into a soundtrack to a life.