Garden Ruin
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Garden Ruin is the fifth studio album from Tucson, Arizona
indie rock
band Calexico. It is notable for being the first Calexico album to feature no instrumental tracks, instead relying on a more direct, pop-style approach. Forgoing what has been described as "indie-mariachi", the band took their music in a different direction, and the result is a more straightforward indie rock album.
Tucson, Arizona
Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...
indie rock
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
band Calexico. It is notable for being the first Calexico album to feature no instrumental tracks, instead relying on a more direct, pop-style approach. Forgoing what has been described as "indie-mariachi", the band took their music in a different direction, and the result is a more straightforward indie rock album.
Track listing
Musicians
- John Convertino - Drums (1-11), Percussion (6), Shakers (10)
- Joey Burns - Acoustic Guitar (1-11), Electric Guitar (1,3-9,11), Vocals (1-11), Piano (1,8,11), Tambourine (1,3,4), Cello (2), Banjo (3), Wurlitzer (3,7,8), Casio Flute (4), Glockenspiel (4), Shaker (4), Bass (5,9), Backup Vocals (5), Vibes (6), Bass Melodica (7), Organ (9), Accordion (10)
- Volker Zander - Electric Bass (1,3,6-8,10), Vibes (9)
- Martin Wenk - Glockenspiel (1), Trumpet (1,3,6), Wurlitzer (3), Nashville Tuning Guitar (3), Electric Guitar (9,11), Banjo (10), Noise (11)
- Jacob Valenzuela - Trumpet (1,3,6)
- JD Foster - Nashville Tuning Guitar (1,3), Horn Arrangement (1,6), Electric Guitar (1), Banjo Ukulele (3), Mando Bird (3), Electric Bass (4,11), Sleigh Bells (4), Backup Vocals (5), Fender Rhodes Bass (11)
- Rob Burger - Hammond B3 Organ (1)
- Paul Niehaus - Pedal Steel (1,8), Electric Guitar (1,7,9-11), Baritone Guitar (6)
- Nelzimar Neves - Cello (3)
- Dan Coleman - Cello Arrangement (3)
- Naim Amor - Electric Guitar (5)
- Jelle Kuiper - Shakers (6), Thunder Drum (10)
- Nick Luca - Hammond B3 Organ (6), Electric Jazz Guitar (7), Reverse Wurlitzer (11)
- Eldys Isak Vega - Piano (6)
- Roberto Mendoza - Sound Effects (6)
- Amparo Sanchez - Vocals (6)