Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far)

Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far)
Studio album by Omar Rodríguez-López
Released December 15, 2007
Recorded 2005 in Amsterdam – 2007
Genre Experimental rock, acid jazz, electronica, dub
Length 53:33
Label Rodriguez Lopez Productions
Producer Omar Rodríguez-López
Omar Rodríguez-López chronology
The Apocalypse Inside of an Orange
(2007)
Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far)
(2007)
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Jeremy Michael Ward
(2008)
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Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far) is the fifth studio album by Omar Rodríguez-López, and the fourth released in the "Amsterdam series".[1] The album was released in Japan on December 15, 2007 with a following U.S. release later on February 5, 2008, merely a week after The Mars Volta's The Bedlam in Goliath. The album art was illustrated by graffiti artist GREY, a childhood friend of Rodriguez-Lopez's.[2] According to the label, the original title given to them by Omar was "Calibration Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far" but the "Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far" part of the title appeared nowhere on the physical release.[3]

Track listing

  1. "Mexico" – 3:00
  2. "El Monte T'aï" – 2:33
  3. "Una Ced Lacerante" – 2:47
  4. "Calibration" – 3:36
  5. "Grey (Canción para Él)" – 3:29
  6. "Glosa Picaresca Wou Mên" – 3:27
  7. "Sidewalk Fins" – 6:32
  8. "Lick the Tilting Poppies" – 5:17
  9. "Cortar el Cuello" – 3:24
  10. "...Is Pushing Luck" – 8:11
  11. "Las Lágrimas de Arakuine" – 11:11

Release history

Region Date Label
Japan December 15, 2007 /Re-Issued April 25, 2011 N2O Records
United States February 5, 2008 /Re-Issued April 25, 2011 N2O Records
United Kingdom February 25, 2008 /Re-Issued April 25, 2011 N2O Records
United States (2LP vinyl) November 11, 2008 N2O Records

Sales

Calibration was Omar's second album to chart on a Billboard music chart and his highest charting yet, peaking at #29 on the Top Heatseekers chart .

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