Califone Bathe in Beautiful Sonic Pools on Stitches

Califone
Stitches
Dead Oceans
4.5/5
 
Main man Tim Rutili has been riding the Califone horse since the end of the 1990’s as the band’s one constant member – following the dissolution of his seminal Chicago underground band Red Red Meat – armed with a dozen or so sublime albums collected in his personal record bag that delve into beautiful worlds of experimental meets mainstream pockets of sound. Poetic, profound, and personal, Stitches catches Rutili in transient mode, recording with a handful of producers and guest players across the USA, forging a patchwork of crickety pop songs fed through filters of country, the avant-garde, and folkisms. Califone make simple music for complex people, so we’ll suggest you enjoy peeling away the audio layers to discover one of America’s truly hidden songwriting gems.