Calling All Cars new album “Raise The People” was recorded in Melbourne with producers Steve Schram (Clairy Browne & The Bangin Rackettes, Eagle and The Worm, Little Birdy, The Vasco Era) and Tom Larkin (Shihad, Strangers, Young and Restless, Bodyjar, The Getaway Plan) and mixed by the Grammy Award-winning Tchad Blake (Pearl Jam, The Black Keys, Peter Gabriel).
It’s a record Calling All Cars were seemingly destined to make. From their earliest EP days to their first two albums Hold, Hold Fire (2010) and Dancing With A Dead Man (2011), their pop sensibilities have always been apparent, but now have been unleashed to full effect, and with them comes an experimental playfulness that only arrives with a band being confident and comfortable in their own abilities. “Raise The People”, a record that is a fitting testament to its creators and their collective ambitions. Here, it’s a raw and lean musical landscape littered with the bones of post-punk, rock and pop, laced with the usual impenetrable lyrical fantasies of Calling All Cars.