Pre-Order: Califone * Villagers - Emerald Green Vinyl [Colored Vinyl] (Grn) 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Twenty years after its release

Twenty years after its release

and how it pertains to both Mother Nature

desire and doubt — without trying to resolve them

It's experimental and ground-breaking nature may be better understood if one regards it as having grown out of a response to Webern's Variations (1936)

the song was first performed by Julie Covington on the original 1976 concept album of Evita

Pre-Order: Califone * Villagers - Emerald Green Vinyl [Colored Vinyl] (Grn) 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Twenty years after its releasePart 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