Call Me Loretta is an up-and-coming band from Toulouse, France. The group first started when Stéphanie (vocals, guitar) and Sébastien (guitar, vocals) began to play together. They were joined late 2000 by Delphine (bass) and Matthieu (drums). Since then, they have been carrying on between Toulouse and Paris, gaining experience from numerous live performances. Call Me Loretta has gradually expanded its repertoire of original songs in which melodies are submitted to emotional peaks and valleys, alternating for example between tense crescendos, delicate arpeggios and fierce distortions.

After having garnered critical praise for Scars (debut self-released mini-lp almost sold out now) and for the ‘Tarnished Angels’ 7’, Call Me Loretta forsook home-recording and went to the renowned French studio Amanita to get a sound at once urgent and restrained, close and distant that their melancholy songs required. The result entitled Crosswind teems with tormented melodies and conveys the pervasive theme of repressed violence. This first full-length, illustrated by Fred’s cryptic drawings, is also manned by an endearing voice and introspective lyrics that greatly participate to create a dark, idiosyncratic universe abounding in emotions. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.