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4.0 out of 5 stars Is the album as good as the cover?, 4 Jun 2003

By	Mr. Gideon D. Brody "twitter me: gideon_" (Manchester, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Televise (Audio CD)

I was first attracted to Calla by a New York compilation CD that I got hold of. Amid NY favourites like The Strokes, Interpol and The Rapture were hidden gems like Ted Leo and the Pharmacists and Calla.

The album cover was enough for me to purchase the album as soon as I saw it. Predictably the musical content matches the macabre image on the front of the CD; Calla's sound is trippy, vibrant, psychedelic and uncompromising.

Being their third album Calla have obviously had time to perfect their sound and the complex, deep-textured and often varied nature of the songs is testimony.

Bridging the gap between fellow American bands like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Low, Calla are able to reach a level of tenderness not found with BRMC and assume a state of restlessness, commotion and disquiet not found with Low. "As Quick As It Gets" is a perfect example of this with its breathless, surging build-up of melody and reverb.

Thankfully free of the usual rock platitudes the lead singer's rather stoned, sometimes insipid delivery of sparse lyrics is typically dreamy and demure but actually compliments the beautifully elegiac music very nicely.

For musical comparisons look to latter stage Sonic Youth (excellent new album "Murray Street") or "The Bends" era Radiohead. Some of the tracks lend heavily from the carefully crafted minimalism you'd associate with Mogwai and the aforementioned Low. What at first listen appear to be attempts at experimentation blossom into edgy, bewitching sonic cascades that neither inspire happiness or sadness just an intense mode of reflection and atmospheric eeriness. Doves and Leaves are particular exponents of this form of musical landscaping.

Tinged also with the escapism of BRMC ("Strangler") Calla are never too far from a hypnotic riff or chord progression.

Enjoy this startling music.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Underground gem, 20 Sep 2003

By	alexliamw (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Televise (Audio CD)

Calla are an emerging New York band (though this is their third album) specialising in slow drone-rock, dark textures and understated, atmospheric vocals. Its nearest comparison and most obvious is Interpol - indeed, friends of Calla - but where Interpol incorporate a touch of faster, Strokes-y protopunk to their faster tracks, Calla owe debts to different sectors too. The vocal stylings between the two bands are different too - in Interpol they are harsh and howling, in Calla they are hushed and morose.

The album is close to Interpol in mood but borrows its atmospherics and flickering guitars from Up-era REM, and on 'As Quick As It Comes', the chiming guitars build steadily to a cacophonious climax in the vein of Mogwai or others of their post-rock contempories. Yet there's even a sense of funk in the sharp guitar work on 'Strangler' and album highlight 'Televised' which is near perfect. Other tracks are more acoustic, 'Monument' is beautifully sparse and 'Surface Scratch' is an understatedly heartbreaking closer.

Admittedly the middle of the album does at times seem repetitive and to mark little departure from the overall sound as the album moves from track to track, but this is only true to the drone-rock ideal where the tracks incorporate one moody whole. This band have serious potential and Televise is an underground gem well worth investigating.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Slow and brooding, apparantly post-Interpol inspired., 22 April 2003

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Many say that this band is one of the many following in the footsteps of Joy Division-esque dark music, similar to Interpol. Although I can relate to what these people are saying, I believe that this record is unique and idosyncratic. If I could compare it to anything, it would be the riffs of the Pixies with the tempo and voice of the Eels: not a bad comparison then. The best songs on the album, in my opinion, are: 'Don't hold your breath' and 'Monument.' These two songs encapuate this unique feel to the music, forming a bittersweet attitude, depressing yet entertaining at the same time. The only criticism of the album though, is that it sometimes can be too slow, and slightly tedious, if they had varied their songs more distinctively, then it would probably be better, but then that would be asking them to change their style of songwriting.

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