What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? In the case of Red Moses and Sami Knowles, who met by engaging in a fight over the preferred lighting at a party they were both attending, they merged. They collaborated behind closed doors for three years before finally creating a channel for the energy they were generating, and in 2009 they formed Callow. The duo, which features Moses on vocals/guitar and Knowles on (everything else!) drums/keys/vocals, have released two LP’s since their formation and toured the country extensively, at one point even committing to bohemian ideals and trading their Bay Area rental for an extended period of life in a van, traveling and playing music around North America. Having now settled back into a routine in the SF Bay, Callow are preparing to release their third LP, Mothdust, which is largely inspired by the struggles of said routine. First single, Always About The Ones Who Have It All, needs little introduction as far as lyrical content. The track, which emphatically introduces Callow’s genre bending but ultimately dark and brooding sound, opens with a haunting bowed saw performance from the Black Heart Procession’s Pall Jenkins, and paints a bleak picture of society and its obsession with celebrity. The sentiment comes at a fitting time, given America’s current political situation, and Moses’ opening lines of “I just want to go away / Take my songs to the cold lands” are perhaps to be taken far more literally than had initially been intended.