Don't Say A Word EP,
CallahanAn acceptably decent slice of Canadian post-hardcore here. I'm always wary of CD-Rs with badly scribbled text, it doesn't fill me with confidence that the content will be any good; more likely it will have been put together in a bedroom on a cheap PC. Although that's acceptable now in this confusing age of guerilla online marketing, 'virals' and being able to webcast concerts from your cellar to millions across the world. Or something.
Anyhow, this is solid. Callahan are, according to their press release, 'shopping around' this EP to everyone ever it would seem so they can get a distribution deal. Good luck to them I say, they will appeal to the floppy-fringed brigade if anyone discovers them and starts getting 'viral'. 'Edgar Cayce Never Saw It Coming' is a typically thunderous introduction, 'The Tooth-Cutting Process' has a fantastic metal breakdown and 'Lights Out' is a suitably brooding penultimate song, making this EP a showcase of how flexible these guys are.
They can certainly play and I'd be interested to hear what a full-length could achieve. Think of the Bled, early Thrice and Beloved mixed together and you've got it. Worth adding on myspace, and picking up if it gets a release.
www.callahanband.com
Si.
