Calla have been compared to Interpol, which I don’t get. Listening to their new album, Collisions, I am reminded a little bit of The Wallflowers. “So Far, So What” has some U2 in it, too, in the way it slowly builds and rocks out a little at the end. Basically, Calla are a good rock band that sound current and a little classic all at once.
Calla – “So Far, So What” (MP3 link removed)
UPDATE:
I sorta forgot the reason I posted this today is that there’s a record release party for Collisions tonight at the Brooklyn Lyceum at 9 pm. 10 bucks get you in… I’ve been walking by and seeing the poster for a month, but it took seeing Brooklyn Vegan’s post to remind me.
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first post? bitches?
there’s a band called Celebration opening up for Calla on their upcoming tour. can someone please, PUHLEEZE share one of their songs?! this is the first buzz band in a long time that i can’t find any clips of. it’s killing me. KILLING me!
thanks.
stereogum for life.
Wallflowers? I don’t hear it, but I’m liking this album.
I hate to really go off topic, but there is something a brewing over at Yahoo, that should get all other MP3 Bloggers attention. For months the debate has raged on whether or not MP3 aggregators are dope or not. I think they are cool as long as they dont link directly to the MP3′s, thats the majorest of all douche baggy things you can do. Turns out now Yahoo has started parsing out MP3 links from the blogs, and making them clickable links downloading those mp3s right from your site all the while the user never visits your page, to read your opinion on that latest Genesis cover.
You right Zack, that’s lame x2
have not heard new Calla yet but for one track
old Calla is hard to categorize but maybe some influences like:
Can
Floyd
Portishead
MBV
U2
Nick Cave
Gun Club
all over the map…
& no this did not come from reading Allmusic, it came from listening to their music
I only have ‘Televise’. Slint comes to my mind as an influence
Jed didn’t say the band sounded like it was *influenced* by the Wallflowers, reginald. Just that it *sounds* like the Wallflowers.
Anyway, the Wallflowers is about the last band that comes to mind when listening to Calla…down at the bottom of the list with Smash Mouth, the Toadies and Deep Blue Something.
understand & didn’t mean to imply he was saying influenced. influences was my word. i purposely avoided the sounds like part. don’t usually like that wording especially with a band like calla. but if i do have to address that sounds like issue will agree that wallflowers would be the last band i would put in that category & u2 for that matter…
Actually, I said that I was *reminded* of The Wallflowers. I didn’t say they sounded like them. I got a similar impression on a couple of tracks that reminded me of the organ/guitar rock of Jakob Dylan’s band.
toadies crush it.
shane-
celebration has a myspace page with one song. otherwise, you are s.o.l. until oct. 11
http://www.myspace.com/celebrationcelebration
i love that cala ‘strangler’ song
i can definitely see the early 90′s U2 influence
twyla,
my space…of course! thanks for the link. you are nice.
That’s down the street from me. I guess we’re neighbors. I saw Calla open up for Firewater awhile back and they sucked. Firewater on the other hand were awesome.
the new album is good, although it takes some getting used to as they’ve evolved yet again from their last one, which seemed so “loud rock” by comparison to their earlier work.
here’s my blog post on the record release show:
http://echoplex.blogspot.com/2005/10/and-then-i-see-darkness.html
Wallflowers! I think not! I love stereogum but I was a little offended by that mention. I’m a Calla lover obviously.