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Calexico — The thread that Keeps Us Jonah Yano The emotional chattels of theseThe ninth studio album from Calexico, The Thread That Keeps Us is a timely snapshot of the Arizona bred band: a family portrait capturing their stylistic variety and unpredictability while still finding solace in limitless creativity. In bringing the album to life, vocalist guitarist Joey Burns and drummer John Convertino found a spiritual home in unusual surroundings not in Arizona, but on the Northern California coast in a home turned studio called