Havalina – Space Love And Bullfighting

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Space, Love & Bullfighting is the final studio album by the American alternative folk/rock band Havalina Rail Co. (on this album credited Havalina only), released on Tooth & Nail Records in 2002.

Pigeon-hole this if you dare! Havalina set out their stall with that quirky title, and the 13 tracks veer wildly across such territories as space rock, guitar-driven indie pop and even lounge jazz, each covered in a sprinkling of Latino-flavoured tidbits. Band leader Matt Wignall’s “relaxed” vocals at times brought former Ragamuffin Mark Robertson to mind; imagine Robertson’s band This Train vacationing lazily in Spain and you’re in the right territory. Personal fave «Rocket Ship» got me thinking excitedly of the B-52’s, but too many mid-tempo tunes plod along forgettably for this to genuinely hit the spot. On Tooth & Nail’s website, the Havalina biog declares, “We honestly don’t know where, how or if we fit into this modern world of over-produced music and lame trend-mongering major labels.” Their determination to do something different is laudable and I truly wanted to like this but, sad to say, little here caught my attention. [Paddy Hudspith, Cross Rhythms, July 2002]

> iTunes (https://music.apple.com/us/album/space-love-bullfighting/724840404)

CD tracklist:

01. Space And Mexico
02. Losing You
03. Leica
04. Pluto
05. I Feel Nothing
06. You Got Me Cry’n
07. Rocket Ship
08. Worst Days
09. If You’d Like…
10. Bullfighter
11. Carlos
12. Spaces And Places
13. Space, Love, And Bullfighting Suite

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