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What: Calling All Cars
When: Wednesday, April 23
Where: Karova Lounge
WHEN considering a name for their latest album, Calling All Cars members agreed Raise the People would be perfect.
"We agreed the line sums up the motto and intentions behind the album - to have a rhythm section that makes people want to move, and melodies that will hopefully get stuck in your head for days," frontman Haydn Ing said.
The third LP from Calling All Cars, Raise the People is littered with the bones of post-punk, rock and pop and laced with the usual impenetrable lyrical fantasies of the band.
Ing said the record was proof of how the band had developed its sound lyrically and sonically over the past few years.
"The first two albums had a lot of heavy, hard-hitting songs and I think we got over that a little bit and wanted to try something new," he said.
"With the first album especially, I don't think I understood how important lyrics were, so this time the songs are more about personal experiences.
"We have slowed the music down a bit and made it more hip-shaking to get people up and dancing and make it more about the melodies."
Signed to Cooking Vinyl worldwide, Calling All Cars has prepared an album that can stack up internationally and will have the chance of a worldwide release, starting with the UK where the band will soon relocate. Having confidently and successfully taken a masterful, musical left-turn, the trio is more equipped than ever before to take the world by the horns.
Ing said he had already started working on the next album, with a "whole bunch of songs" in the works.
"I think this time around, we'll try and pump it out as fast as we can, especially with what we've learnt over this album is that people's attention spans get shorter and shorter, so I think we have to stay in people's faces," he said.