★★★★★

1. Dream in Blue: 👍🏻
2. Wake Up Dolores: 👍🏻
3. Angels with Dirty Faces: 👎🏻
4. That Train Don’t Stop Here: 👍🏻
5. Kiko and the Lavender Moon: 👍🏻
6. Saint Behind the Glass: 👍🏻
7. Reva’s House: 👍🏻
8. When the Circus Comes: 👍🏻
9. Arizona Skies: 👍🏻
10. Short Side of Nothing: 👍🏻
11. Two Janes: 👍🏻
12. Wicked Rains: 👍🏻
13. Whiskey Trail: 👍🏻
14. Just a Man: 👍🏻
15. Peace: 👍🏻
16. 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?!