Well, an inveterate "Calexicaner" one does is not so easy to hide his disappointment. But I disagree with the Amazon editors decided if it is claimed here that would have taken place with this album a return to the desert sound. Eagerly I cry to the early days of this exceptional band. Still flashes here and there such a thing as originality, but mostly we supplied Joey Burns with Faserschmeichlerei in the style of Daniel Lanois as an interpreter of Weihnachtsliedchen. Too smooth, round, adapted the new work seems to me. No more guitar sounds in the style of spaghetti western, hardly can be heard and certainly not more trips to the Jazz, with whom we Calexico showed up to Feast of Wire that they are trained musicians, the far more the pedal steel top who, as the repertoire of GFC-Am-Em chord combinations. Therefore, I forgive myself somewhat melancholy only 3 stars and hope they still live at least put those playful mood on the day, on account of which I have learned to love Calexico.
