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What a year to release your first Christmas album – or maybe it’s the best year of all, given how much cheering up we all need! Anyway, deck the halls because Calexico are back with ‘Seasonal Shift’ The record is a celebration of the festive season & contains a few cover songs, including classics by John Lennon & Yoko Ono and Tom Petty, as well as a few special guests and a whole lot of good will. It’s heartfelt but fun, and earnest but celebratory. It features Calexico in an assortment of guises, referencing Portuguese fado and old Mexican folk songs, from the stripped back two-man skeleton to the full party of international collaborators, including artists like Bombino, Gaby Moreno, Gisela João, Nick Urata (DeVotchKa) and Camilo Lara.
Reflecting on the album, Joey Burns says, “It’s more of a seasonal album and like all seasons they are about change and how those changes in the world resonate inside of you. I never thought this would have gone the way that it did. We were aiming to record a 6 song EP and we kept going. I guess I never thought I would be on semi-permanent hibernation mode either, but I’m super happy and extremely grateful.”
