What inspires Her Name is Calla to continue creating music?
Our children, friends and family. Also, the fear of failing or seeming like I don’t do enough.

Your last release, The Heritage, was a great success, what’s next?
Thank you! Our next release, The Quiet Lamb, (review here) is out on 8th November on Denovali Records. It’s our first full-length album, and is over 75 minutes long.

Post Rock generates creative (and often lengthy) band and track names, how does Her Name is Calla come up with these?
We’re not strictly post rock really – the only similarities are the length of our songs and our dynamics. So a lot of our titles aren’t very long at all!

How does Her Name is Calla decide which tracks will be on a release? testing them at gigs, or a different method?
This album is the result of a few years of gigging and recording the new tracks, so we’ve developed our favourite ways of playing those tracks. On The Quiet Lamb, we’ve featured a few songs that have popped up on very small releases, such as the Long Grass single (see below) or Condor and River, which we originally released on a split with Maybeshewill. But it felt right to include them on this album, in their new states, because they have been with us for a long time, and accompanied us as we’ve developed as a band, friends and people.


What have you been listening to recently that you would recommend to your fan base?
Shearwater’s The Golden Archipelago, worriedaboutsatan’s new tracks, and the terrifying Shutter Island soundtrack.

The obligatory digital media question: We all know that digital downloads (legal or not) are changing the music business, would you say this is a challenge or an opportunity, and why?
I think I understand this from both sides: as a music listener, it’s hard to part with lots of money for an album you haven’t heard yet – so I agree with mp3s for giving a taste for an artist. As a musician, I know that I’ve spent more time creating an album than at my full-time job, and that I’ve spent a lot of money on recording equipment, instruments, travel, pressing, production, etc. So if everyone downloaded our music without paying, we couldn’t really afford to keep creating anymore music. We do try to offer really lovely packaging to make the purchase of our album feel very special though!