Feast Of Wire

Mojo (3/03, p.98) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...The music is often sensuous and sparkly....Seductive, stirring songs about crushed hope and the corruption of beauty and some of their most ambitious arrangements make this their most fully-realised and accomplished album yet..."
Wire (2/03, p.59) - "...They create a space for the listener to appreciate the music's constituent parts at the same time as measuring its overall impact....Their instrumentals run from the briefest of acoustic interludes to beautifully arranged soundtracks..."
Uncut (3/03, p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Calexico transports you to a place where the sun's hot enough to bake bricks and there are always mangy dogs in the shade....Saddle up, it's showtime..."
Magnet (4/03, p.85) - "...It's all drunkenly cinematic, as prickly as cactus and smart as hell, a fly-splattered vista of tumbling tumbleweeds and wide-open spaces..."
Entertainment Weekly (3/14/03, p.66) - "...These country-rock abstractionists make songs full of Sergio Leone set pieces and Mexicali blues, with random bursts of jazz swagger...and pop bliss..." - Rating: B+