Callel - The First EP

With a name so hopelessly lacking in inventiveness as The First EP, Edinburgh's Callel are more than happy to let their music speak for them. A collaboration between songwriters Craig Hughes and Aaron Cornall, Callel take the influences of Elliot Smith and Jeff Buckley and add their own, slightly more considered touches around the edges. Fed by the willingness of Hughes and Cornall to trade vocal duties, The First EP digs deeply into a well of natural chemistry and melodic prowess that provides a duplicitous twist on Callel's heroes of old. [Neil Ferguson)