Her Name is Calla follow their excellent, if unsettling, debut, The Quiet Lamb, with the release of the double A-side vinyl single, Maw.

Unusually, the title track, throws the listener into the climax of a galloping, pounding rock song, which burns with growing intensity. Clocking in at around a third of the length of Her Name is Calla’s more symphonic tracks, Maw is a demonstration of a band enjoying and exploiting the dark ferocity of the shorter time span. The Beat That My Heart Skipped, on the other hand, engages the use of brevity to create a delicate and heartfelt breath of simple drums, violin and vocals. If Maw is the example of a claustrophobic gathering of instruments, The Beat That My Heart Skipped is inescapable for its bare, tender minimalism.

Closing track, Dreamlands, features a return to the longer, more conceptual song, wilfully creating disorientation through dizzying electronic experimentation and sudden, or unnervingly gradual, slides into different phases of an unfamiliar world.

Stream the single in full below. Buy from their Bandcamp page here.