The ebb and flow of The Black Light is indicative of Calexico's music as a whole. No one sound dominates a song, yet overall the sound maintains a very cohesive and cinematic feel. Instruments talk to one another. A section of one song may feature a Spanish rhythm section that could come straight from Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain. Following that might be a light-hearted, babbling trumpet, invoking light thoughts of a mariachi band at a wedding. The music is haunting, yet fun, almost like the atmosphere of the saloon and Mexican-biker-vampire hangout in Quentin Tarantino's From Dusk till Dawn.

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