★★★★★
- Dream in Blue: 👍🏻
- Wake Up Dolores: 👍🏻
- Angels with Dirty Faces: 👎🏻
- That Train Don’t Stop Here: 👍🏻
- Kiko and the Lavender Moon: 👍🏻
- Saint Behind the Glass: 👍🏻
- Reva’s House: 👍🏻
- When the Circus Comes: 👍🏻
- Arizona Skies: 👍🏻
- Short Side of Nothing: 👍🏻
- Two Janes: 👍🏻
- Wicked Rains: 👍🏻
- Whiskey Trail: 👍🏻
- Just a Man: 👍🏻
- Peace: 👍🏻
- Rio de Tenampa: 👎🏻
Holy crap. I don’t know how I’ve never heard of Los Lobos before, but I was totally blown away by Kiko. It’s my favorite kind of music to discover: it sounded simultaneously familiar and unlike anything I’d ever heard. The way they made a cohesive album out of all the disparate sounds on this album is astonishing. Zydeco, Country, Bossa Nova, & Blue Grass. Songs that reminded me of Eric Clapton, The Kinks, The Arcade Fire, The E Street Band, and The Stray Cats. Wow. How has this band never made it onto my radar until now?!
