It’s well known that I like shoegaze. While your typical shoegaze band was playing the Byrds with more feedback and through lots of crazy effects Calm plays slowed down hardcore with a smattering of haze. Let me back up. I don’t really know what genre this falls into…maybe spacerock? I don’t really know man. Calm fills the gap from Mohinder to Her Space Holiday, Duster and possible other bands I don’t know about (Cattle Decapitation? Jenny Picollo?). Mohinder ruled, Calm slayed and those other bands I don’t care about. So Calm is the penultimate band by these dudes. The Calm 12” surfaced sometime in the mid 1990s and immediately became one of my favorite records. Thumbnail (from Knoxville, TN) played with Calm a few times in California their roadie (he of Patrick Patrick fame) told me they were dope live, a mixture of Karp and Smashing Pumpkins. Dag…. This 12” is loud and quiet at the same time, as well as, fast and slow. If you turn it up reallllll loud you get the most out of it.
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Dear James - Do you have burned copy of this? you should upload it!
CALM was excellent! wonder if there is any unreleased stuff?
-mr. asher
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