CalifoneBest Califone Albums Ranked
8.2
Avg Score
12
Opinions
10
Albums
2
Reviewers
Summary from 12 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Califone's catalog across 10 albums from 12 opinions, with an overall average of 8.2/10. The top-rated Califone album is Roots and Crowns (2006) with a 9.0/10 average from 1 rating, followed by All My Friends Are Funeral Singers and Heron King Blues (Deluxe Edition). The discography on Wavelength spans 2001 to 2023. The Orchids ranks as the highest-rated Califone song on Wavelength with a 8.8/10 average.
Roots and Crowns
“Tim Rutili's Chicago collective outdoes itself on this record, which sounds like ancient mountain and Delta traditions synthesized-- scratched up, muddied, and re-imagined for an America more reliant on machines than the grace of God.”
Quicksand/Cradlesnakes (Deluxe Reissue)
“There used to be a quote somewhere on the Perishable website about Red Red Meat's final album, *There's a Star Above the Manger Tonight*, that said something like, "God made us stop for a while after this one." There's a kernel of truth there. *Manger* came at the end of a intensely creative cycle for Red Red Meat, where they evolved from the noisy blues-punk band of their self-titled debut, throu”
Sometimes Good Weather Follows Bad People (Expanded Edition)
“This vinyl-only reissue gathers Califone's two self-titled EPs that were collected on a CD under this name in 2002, but adds a cache of unreleased Red Red Meat material to attract completists.”
Heron King Blues (Deluxe Edition)
“Inevitably, at some point in late summer, the landscape becomes vaguely obscene: August air gets thick and throbbing, heavy with a richness that's almost menacing. The sun hovers, uncomfortably plump. Lawn crickets yawn and twitter in double speed, their collective whispers slowly spinning into a single, disembodied howl. Everything else turns way too green. Listening to Califone's sweaty, blues-”
Roomsound (Deluxe Reissue)
“There's something elemental about Califone. The ideas are fragmented but fundamental. Gravity, blood, warmth, pain, dirt, desire, and decay-- this is the stuff of this band. Not surprisingly, it never crosses my mind that Tim Rutili's songs might be "too personal" for me to understand; on the contrary, I hear in this music an impressive representation of some weird collective dream that I can take”
villagers
“Tim Rutili has spent a quarter century cryptically subverting folk-rock convention. But in these songs—some of his warmest and most welcoming yet—he tells you just how he feels.”
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