Description:	CD on Gizeh Recordings / GZH
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Indie Rock
	Label:	Gizeh
	Price:	£7.49
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...according to our Brian on 12 June 2008.

Leeds post-rock troupe Her Name is Calla have a mini album (The Heritage) of dramatic slo-core tragedy which unfurls all over your face like a mask of sadness spreading it's wings. They sort of connect the dots between early Low, iLiKETRAiNS and Galaxie 500. A little gothic, rather grave but with some beautiful touches. There's some proper classicism to their sound, very sparse, almost operatic in parts. Also there's some eerie electronic embellishment somewhere in there but overall this is sad, earnest music with flickers of tenderness. Not to be endorsed when feeling proper glum.

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What their label says...

The soon-to-be Leeds, UK based 4-piece 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 Heritage’ is Her Name is Calla’s second release for Gizeh and it is a much darker and harrowing affair. Self-recorded and produced by the band it appears to open up a deeper and more turbulent mind-set. The opener ‘Nylon’ creeps in and as the line “I asked around the towns and schools but no-one had seen you in years” launches forward this record has your full attention. 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. This is Her Name is Calla’s send off before returning home with their long-awaited debut full length in early 2009. My suggestion is that you should hang on to their coat-tails while you can. ‘Calla play two sold-out Scottish shows with The Twilight Sad at the end of March before going on a UK jaunt of their own in April.  Tracks : 1. Nylon 2. New England3. Paying For Your Funeral 4. Wren 5. Motherfucker! It’s Alive and It’s Bleeding! 6. Rebirth