Collisions

"A record born of a few studio punch-ups, with a through-the-teeth delivery and pervading tension."
- pitchfork

'It Dawned On Me' is the opening track of NYC group and Beggars Banquet signings Calla's fourth album 'Collisions', and a more than appropriate introduction to the dark, mysterious world Calla inhabits. Indicative of their work, the track is undeniably a rock song, but one that beneath the infectious psychedelic guitar riff, has a hauntingly slow and measured quality where minimal arrangements compliment frontman Aurelio Valle's foreboding, softly husked vocals.

It's ambience over noise, atmospherics NOT overkill, a slow seduction that lures you in and refuses to let you leave…

Calla was formed in NYC in '97 by Valle [guitar and vocals], Sean Donovan [bass, keys, programming] and Wayne B. Magruder [percussion, programming], adding Peter Gannon in '03 with Sean Donovan departing in '04.

Their approach has always been one of prising apart traditional song structures and piecing everything together into subtly cinematic songs, at times evoking electronically processed Ennio Morricone soundscapes - as with 'Collisions', though the it's textures have solidified, their understanding of blending indie rock and high concept art now polished, four albums deep.