CALIFONE RELEASE VILLAGERS, SHARE PERFORMANCE VIDEO FOR “SWEETLY” VILLAGERS OUT NOW, STREAM IT HERE WATCH AN INTIMATE PERFORMANCE OF “SWEETLY” HERE |
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villagers album cover art (high res download here) |
“Rutili and his band thrive in the liminal space between accessible rock and rigorous exploration. Villagers’ sleeve is telling: a pile of disparate old junk that somehow sits together as a piece. The remarkable thing is that this album achieves that so spectacularly.” - UNCUT, 9/10 Album of the Month “A quiet classic” - MOJO, 4 star review "Villagers’s nine tracks span across a wide thematic landscape like a good short story collection” - FLOOD "Given how long Califone have been going, it’s heartening to hear them continuing to evolve, while maintaining the qualities that make them unique.” - DUSTED Califone, the long-running project of Tim Rutili, has just released villagers via Jealous Butcher Records, their first since 2020’s Echo Mine. In celebration of the release Califone has shared a new performance clip of the album’s elegiac closing song “sweetly” recorded at Courthouse, the same home studio where they filmed last month’s live clip for the album’s title track “villagers” for FLOOD Sessions. The group will expound on these live arrangements on their first tour dates in support of the album, a run of seven shows on the east coast this June that includes stops in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Durham, and Kingston, NY - full dates below and tickets here. villagers’ songs are full of people coming to terms with the gaps between perception and reality, with the very concept of reality, with time slinking constantly towards an unseen cliff—an album where even songs of devotion focus on loving the other’s imperfections and broken hearts. Recorded in four cities and bolstered by a pool of collaborators that includes longtime cohorts Brian Deck, Michael Krassner, Rachel Blumberg, and Ben Massarella, the record’s nine compositions smoothly bounce between taut grooves and rough-sketched studio exploration, seamlessly blending elements of classic AM gold, electronic experimentation, Laurel Canyon harmonies, and musique concrete into a horizonless sonic geography. Even as the world stretches into stranger and stranger shapes, Califone continues to reach newfound heights of harmony and unity beyond their already mythic chemistry. STREAM / BUY VILLAGERS NOW BUY CALIFONE TICKETS WATCH THE VIDEO FOR “THE HABSBURG JAW” WATCH THE VIDEO FOR “OX-EYE” WATCH A PERFORMANCE OF “VILLAGERS” WATCH A PERFORMANCE OF “SWEETLY” CALIFONE TOUR DATES June 15 - Saugerties, NY @ Orpheum* *(performing live score to Parajanov’s THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES INFO) June 16 - Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool+ June 17 - Kingston, NY @ Tubby’s+ June 18 - Allston, MA @ The Cantab Lounge+ June 19 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s+ June 20 - Washington, DC @ Quarry House+ June 21 - Durham, NC @ The Pinhook+ + (with Max Knouse) |
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Califone photo by Travis Haight |
VILLAGERS TRACK LIST 1. the habsburg jaw 2. eyelash 3. mcmansions 4. villagers 5. comedy 6. ox-eye 7. halloween 8. skunkish 9. sweetly FOLLOW CALIFONE |
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