Scavengers

Scavengers

Track Listings

1. Oh Oh Oh

2. Elephants

3. Brand New

4. Feedback

5. Muckrakers

6. Ncorrected

7. Trash

8. Cut and Paste

9. Scavengers

10. TTFN

Tracks:

Fear Of Fireflies
Hover Over Nowhere
Traffic Sound
Tijerina
Slum Creeper
The Swarm
Mayzelle
Love Of Ivah
A Fondness For Crawling
Promenade

Amazon.com

Calla's debut album was a striking blend of gutbucket riffs and sonic abstraction, standard rock instrumentation and electronic programming, big guitars and subtle ambient detailing. Scavengers, the New York-based threesome's second CD, is less intriguing than the first disc, but it's still compelling. Calla certainly craft fine melodies but their first concern seems to be sound itself. Guitarist Aurelio Valle, whose playing draws from dirty blues and Morricone soundtracks, is a master of tone and inflection. He can animate the simplest guitar parts with subtle inflections. That's one reason the group can pull off something like "Hover over Nowhere," a track in which the song gets left behind, only to be followed by a lovely and lengthy coda. Layering vocals on top of catchy guitar, "Tijerina" displays the group's taste for dramatic grandeur. Scavengers (which was coproduced by Michael Gira) is a solid variation on the band's first CD. It'll be interesting to see where the group goes from here. --Fred Cisterna

Customer Reviews:

Quiet Storm.......2002-08-06

With all that is mundane in a senseless music industry there comes a time when a album comes about that makes one sit down and listen, listen to it for what it's worth. Every cling of the guitar, swoosh of atmosphere pushed out by methodical drummming, bass lines that bleed narcotics, and a voice that could gently whisper you pains which, till then, you never knew existed. All this is intrinsic to this album with nothing more and nothing less. This album is good and the music is stunning to the point in which I asked myself "What is this other stuff I've been listening to?"... :)

Irascible-Quiescence.......2002-08-02

With all that is mundane in a senseless music industry there comes a time when a album comes about that makes one sit down and listen, listen to it for what it's worth. Every cling of the guitar, swoosh of atmosphere pushed out by methodical drummming, bass-lines that bleed narcotics, and a voice that could gently whisper you pains which, till then, you never knew existed. All this is intrinsic to this album with nothing more and nothing less. This album is good and the music is stunning to the point in which I asked myself "What the hell is this other stuff I've been listening to?"... :)

Elcellent mellowing-out album.......2002-05-19

This is a great ablum. I've had it for a couple of months and have listened to it probably at least 20 times. My favorite tracks are #1 and #4, although there's not a bad song on it. It's kind of hard for me to describe what Calla sound like. Reading the other reviews I just found out that one of the guys was from Bowery Electric (a group I really liked), and you can hear some of B.E. in Calla. It's good music for when you feel emotionally or physically run down or just want to chill out. It's a bit like Low in that the style is really loose and sometimes elegantly sparse. It also reminds me a bit of Godspeed You Black Emperor, Mira and for some reason Massive Attack.

a lot of pretense and very little sincerity.......2001-07-05

even after listening to this cd 3 times, as suggested by the previous reviewer, i still didnt like it at all. al this brooding, whispering, semi-gothic pretense started to irritate me after a while. so i turned to the black heart procession for some consolation.... their 3 cd's give me exactly what i wanted to get from calla: genuine heartbreaking, chilling, music that stays with you for a long time. calla failed to provide these qualities

Low Key Metamorphosis.......2001-03-16

What sets Calla apart from other brooding post-rock outfits (Idaho, Red House Painters, Low et al) is not so much the arrangements, instrumentation or the presentation of their material, but rather the way in which their songs are structured. Beyond the verse-chorus concept lies a gradual shift in theme and mood, drifting in and out of more abstract instrumental passages. This is a much more subtle take on the cut-and-paste ethic which contemporary culture has embraced over the last decade or two: time-stretched and layered instead of the more jarring and schizophrenic methods employed to date. Although superbly textured, on first listen this album may well sound featureless and indistinct, but a little perseverance reveals a refreshingly different pop sensibility, one which brings to mind the finest moments of The Velvet Underground.

Average customer rating:

The Scavengers
The Scavengers
Manufacturer: Zerox
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000B9G73Y
Release Date: 2003-05-13

Average customer rating:

Scavengers of a Street
K5 & Tha Bottom Feedaz
Manufacturer: Black Market Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music

Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000X976U
Release Date: 2004-02-10

Average customer rating:

Scavengers
Food for Animals
Manufacturer: MuckaMuck Produce/Upper Class
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0002W0YUW

Tracks:

Oh Oh Oh
Elephants
Brand New
Feedback
Muckrakers
Ncorrected
Trash
Cut and Paste
Scavengers
TTFN

Average customer rating:

Scavengers in the Matrix
Various Artists
Manufacturer: If It Moves
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Indie Rock | Compilations | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000003C9S
Release Date: 1994-06-10

Tracks:

Drown - Primal Engine
Zygote - Recliner
I Am Truth - Hate Dept.
F/2.8 - Colla Destra
Glass - Killing Floor
Hate (Flesh Mix) - Contagion
Gun Lover - Acumen
Guilt (Trip Mix) - Death Method
Halidified (Subgenius Mix) - Penal Colony
Stalemate - Synthesia Murder Program
Submit - Slave Unit
Insecure - Pain Emission
Chaos - Apolitiq
In Darkness - Sweat Engine
Like The Plague - Death Industry
Dominion - Tinfed
Mad Drunk (Short Temper Mix) - STG

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