The Calls, Into The Day
Independent
Leeds’s The Calls continue to traverse sonic soundscapes far removed from their local streets, with Into The Day – continuing the psychedelic world conjured up across Until It’s Time and Way Far Out. The single comes alongside the news of their new EP Setting Sun, which is due in the summer and looks to bring together the hazy desert world of their current era.
If Way Far Out was pushing The Calls out of their melancholy, vivid Leeds winter into a sprawling, Americana summer with a more experimental cut, and Until It’s Time was the one with the festival-ready hooks and meandering cool melodies, well… Into The Day combines the two uncannily well. Moody, muted, and mysterious as The Calls wander through chromatic chord changes and colourful countermelodies, Into The Day ticks around a textural time-shift – The Calls are usually reflective, but the thoughtful atmospheres on Into The Day feel distinctly forward-looking.
It’s fitting, though – The Calls have just announced the EP that’s home to their three recent tracks. Setting Sun is due out in the summer, an answer to the wintery comfort of last release Fall Inside Again. One for sunny afternoons just slightly removed from reality, against The Calls’s trademark transformative green-screen of sound – not fair to call it their most exploratory yet, because they’re always experimenting, but definitely breaking new ground.
Into The Day is out now.
