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CD Review – Callers

Life of Love

Western Vinyl

When you have a singer who sounds like a better-trained and more polished Debbie Harry in Sara Lucas, you’re going to be good. And Callers is. Really good. “You Are an Arc” opens the album and sounds like it was recorded in a bedroom an was thrown in as an outtake, but it is quite possibly the best song on the album. Lucas’s vocals are like clouds hovering over the sparse beats of songs like “Glow” and the smooth groove of “Life of Love.” Callers is one of those bands that you don’t initially love, but every time you listen to them, they grow on you until they become one of your favorite bands.

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