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October 19, 2004
Kid vs. Judge
Calla - Televised
If you were going to compile a soundtrack for the hypothetically seven-hour long movie version of 'Blood Meridian', you couldn't do better than to ask Calla to compose it. Quick reasons why: their music is dessicated, sharp, and threatening in the way that a wide open, unpopulated space can be. And it's also music full of breathless passion. Lead singer Aurelio Valle intones almost everything in a whisper, one of those back-of-the-throat voices that makes him sound like he's on his deathbed and each line could be his last spoken. His (Valle's) guitar lines in this song shriek and stretch over the percussion like thin, exposed ligaments hanging on some carrion-animal's bleached bones. The ending to 'Televised' (the title track) is such that it could have gone on for another six or seven minutes in the same vein, and it wouldn't have hurt the song at all- it's just that well-composed. One of those songs that you can play when things are terrible, and it perfectly fits your mood- sort of punishingly bleak. Irresistably evil. Give in to temptation and buy it HERE.
P.S. Calla are currently hard at work on the follow-up to the album this track was taken from- should be out in mid '05, with any luck.
Posted by matt at October 19, 2004 08:00 AM
Comments
i have to agree with you on this one. the song catches your attention in a subtle way at the begining and manages to slowly seduce you until the end and leaves you wanting more. patiently waiting for the new album...
Posted by: Lindsay at October 20, 2004 11:09 PM
Hey Lindsay, thanks for the comment, and I'm glad you liked the song. Seductive is a good way to describe all of Calla's music- and if you like this track, then you'll probably like all of their previous albums (except the first one, that's a little bit noisier).
Posted by: Kevin at October 21, 2004 05:49 PM