Calexico, "Quattro (World Drifts In)"

I'm slowly catching up on some podcast listening; yesterday's nighttime work commute offered a recent episode of "All Songs Considered""Morning Becomes Eclectic" fully devoted to the latest album from Calexico. Funny thing, Calexico: every time I hear something from them, I think to myself, "hey, I really like that," and then promptly forget about it, and them. I think it's because the vocals are always so meek, even when the music's risible.

Case in point: "Quattro (World Drifts In)," which actually made my year-end Top 10 Singles list in 2003, and yet I could not for the life of me remember the name of it until conducting a YouTube search. It may not be "memorable," but it's certainly marvelous. No one today mixes staccato horns into their grooves quite the way they do.

PS: Here's the rest of my list from that year - evidence of my chronic musical incompatibility with people I know, at least as contemporary stuff goes.

1. Dandy Warhols - "You Were the Last High" - Capitol
2. Alison Moyet - "Do You Ever Wonder" - Sanctuary
3. Wayne Wonder - "No Letting Go" - Atlantic
4. Junior Senior - "Move Your Feet" - Atlantic
5. Calexico - "Quattro (World Drifts In)" - Quarterstick
6. Queens of the Stone Age - "No One Knows" - Interscope
7. Fleetwood Mac - "Peacekeeper" - Warner Bros.
8. Floetry - "Say Yes" - DreamWorks
9. Flaming Lips - "Fight Test" - Warner Bros.
10. Robbie Williams - "Feel" - Virgin