The French singer and pianist Auren made her debut in 2013 with the album . Now she has her eyes on herself internationally by collaborating with the American band . The singer approached multi-instrumentalist and drummer in a classic way. After a concert by Calexico in Lyon, she managed to give them recordings of her songs. Not much later, Auren was at Calexico's studio in Tucson, Arizona. The
… resulting album sounds, bluntly, like a regular Calexico album with a French singer. As always, Calexico's spatial and dark prairie music features a lot of shivering tremo guitars, in addition to rustic raspy acoustic guitars and bare drums. The graceful Auren sings in the traditions of what are irreverently called French sigh girls in the Netherlands: girlish and sensual. This americana-noir meets yé-yé is definitely a pleasant mix. (MR)more
