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CALLA - Strength In Numbers
| PitchFork |
| There's no getting around the fact that Calla's biggest selling point (or dealbreaker, depending on your stance) is their stalwart fixation on the melancholy. On early albums, the band sowed the seeds of that bleakness in songs devoid of ear-grabbing hooks or lofty climaxes, relying instead on more oblique methods of emotional venting....full text |
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| Kevchino |
| A little over a year since their last album “Collisions” came out now sees the release of “Strength in Numbers,” an album that almost seems to have began where the previous one left off. On this one, Aurelio Valle (guitar, vocals), Peter Gannon (bass, guitars), and Wayne B. Magruder (drums, samples) return to their mellow, dreamy, and rather moody style, where even the strongest rockers on the album like “Sanctify” and “Bronson” seem to play more subdued than on the previous album....full text |
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| PrefixMag |
| Expectations are tricky. Now onto their fifth album (and second for Beggars Banquet), the members of Brooklyn-based Calla have given us a clear picture of who they are and where they exist on the indie-music spectrum. Since releasing their self-titled debut in 1999, they have slowly streamlined their brooding, fractured brand of rock....full text |
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