Album · Calexico
Algiers by Calexico
Algiers is an album by Calexico, released in 2012. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Splitter”, on 3 lists with a best position of #31.
Algiers, Calexico's 2012 album on Anti-, finds the Tucson band still working the borderland sound that Joey Burns and John Convertino, two veterans of Giant Sand, have been refining since they founded the group in 1996. The recipe hasn't changed so much as deepened: the mariachi, cumbia, conjunto and tejano accents of the Mexican border tangled up with alt-country twang, jazzy touches, indie-folk hush and the slow, cinematic swell of post-rock. Somebody once tagged it desert noir, and it still fits like a glove.
"Splitter" is the track that made the countdowns, and Edge of the Sun came next.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Algiers on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Splitter | 3 | #31 | – | 2012 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.