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Tracklisting:
1. Nylon
2. New England
3. Paying For Your Funeral
4. Wren
5. Motherfucker! It’s Alive and It’s Bleeding!
6. Rebirth
Her Name is Calla released their well-received debut single ‘A Moment of Clarity’ on Gizeh back in October 2007 alongside a string of dates with Beggars Banquet new-boys iLiKETRAiNS. The band centres around a core of 4 in Thom Corah, Michael Love, Tom Morris and Adam Weikert but is often expanded for live shows to include David Dhonau(Cello) and Sophie Barnes of The Rosie Taylor Project (Trumpet). This recording features the string section of The Monroe Transfer on ‘New England’.
The fury spewed forth throughout the closing stages of live-favourite ‘New England’; complete with a quite epic string section; pulls this mini-album to its loudest and heaviest moment.
‘Wren’ brings to mind the tranquility of an early Low record as it weaves through some quite beautiful chord changes with David Dhonau’s Cello for company. As the record starts to draw to a close ’Motherfucker! It’s Alive and It’s Bleeding’ ties together the themes and lyrics of the other songs into a desperate, wailing closing of “We’re all over the place!” and it feels as though breath has left you for a better place. As tape meters crackle a sparse piano rises into view, a delicate vocal comes and goes in a fleeting moment and your breath returns.
There is even room for a hidden-track in ‘Long Distance Runner’, an old song dug from the ground to again see the light of day.