Spain Colored Orange

A musical cross between the southwestern melodrama of Calexico and the florid homegrown psychedelia of the Olivia Tremor Control and their many offshoots, Houston sextet Spain Colored Orange mix elaborate, carnivalesque arrangements with smart pop songwriting. The group began in 2000 as the solo acoustic project of singer, songwriter, guitarist, and keyboardist Gilbert Alfaro. According to a 2005 interview in The Houston Chronicle, Alfaro took the name from an elementary-school map-coloring project, which his grandmother still had pinned to her wall when he started the band. R...