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July 01, 2005
Noun plus verb plus adverb minus interest
Calla - Mother Sky (Can cover)
Some mildly lazy sentences regarding Calla:
1. Lead singer Aurelio Valle is a deadly whisperer. His voice is a little snake's tongue flickering in your ear. Possibly nice, but also slightly disturbing.
2. Calla play curvy, vicious, gut-wrenching music. It's cathartic, but only in a post-vengeful-homicide sort of way.
3. This cover of Can's 'Mother Sky' is impressive, but really, you have to see them play it live. They draw it out to an insane length, and the bass is deep and loud and elemental enough to reset your heartbeat (not an exaggeration, my friend left the show with a newfound arrhythmia).
4. Calla has just recently signed to Beggars Banquet, and they have a new album, "Collisions" coming out on September 27th. Couple months ago they still had an mp3 of the new song, 'It Dawned on Me' on their website, but looks like they took it down. New direction seems to be in a poppier, albeit bleak, vein.
5. This cover is from a split EP that Calla did with the Walkmen, which is very, very good, and which you can find here, along with the rest of Calla's releases, which are all worth your time and possibly your disposable income.
Posted by Kevin at July 1, 2005 09:39 AM
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