Madison’s Eric Caldera is mostly known as the mathematical mind behind the instrumental post-rock band, El Valiente. But when he writes a song with lyrics, it goes to his other musical outlet, Oedipus Tex.
With a more delicate touch, Caldera’s fingerpicked guitar lines and breaking vocal rasp outline stories of love and loss.
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