Califone - villagers Standing on the Corner Emerging onto the Yorkshire hardcore

Emerging onto the Yorkshire hardcore circuit in 2015

which I’d basically given up since becoming obsessed with rave and acid house

really - is you don’t necessarily even need all the references to get it

their first time exploring the effect

always extraordinary

Califone - villagers Standing on the Corner Emerging onto the Yorkshire hardcorePart experimental indie and part '70s soft rock, Califone's first record in three years finds creative force Tim Rutili reaching new levels of harmony, fragility, and confidence. Whether detailing aging goths retaining their identity through year long spooky decorations (Halloween), an imagined conversation with an inbred monarch (Habsburg Jaw), or the conflicts between identity and technology (Ox Eye), Villagers' nine tracks spread out and luxuriate