About the Artist
Poland-based four piece band Kallai create music that fuses alternative, shoegaze, and post-punk influences. Formed in 2023, they debuted with Always/Never in March 2024, followed by Palisades in May, which appeared on KEXP’s Audioasis Best of 2024 playlist. Moreover, their self-titled EP, released in June 2024, drew critical acclaim and was featured on the Shoegazer Alive Blog’s Best of 2024 list. The band’s members include alumni from Trance to the Sun, Lost Echoes, and Luscious Apparatus, bringing depth and experience to their sound. Additionally, Kallai co-founded the sell-out Dreamgaze PDX festival, highlighting their active role in the regional alt-gaze scene.
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The Album
Recently, their debut full-length album, We Are Forever, dropped on October 17, 2025, through Little Cloud Records. The album features eight tracks: The Hymn / The Beautiful Ones, Amor Occidit Omnia, Protector, Another World, Always/Never, The Wave, Falling, and As Night Falls. Promoted with the singles Falling and The Wave, the record is a shoegaze piece that blends elements of doom, goth, and grunge while exploring themes of hope and marginalization.
We Are Forever opens with The Hymn / The Beautiful Ones, a quiet-loud hymn that sounds haunted and weighty. It sets the emotional tone of the record and establishes its tension between dread and devotion. Next, Amor Occidit Omnia deepens the mood with gothic undertones; its title means “love kills all things.” The melody moves through brooding textures and minor-key swells, amplifying the album’s sense of foreboding. Then comes Protector, a mid-tempo track driven by a steady low-end and dense guitar layers. The vocals, soaked in vulnerability, anchor the song’s emotional core and reveal the band’s balance between power and restraint.
Afterward, Another World, the longest track on the album, shifts the energy. It blends string-like textures with the band’s signature shoegaze guitar wash, creating a softer sound that briefly transports listeners elsewhere. Meanwhile, Always/Never, their debut single, bridges the album’s sound with its shimmering guitars and melodic hook that carries a bittersweet ache. Subsequently, The Wave unfolds slowly as instruments build into a lush, ethereal melody. The lyric, “I dive in the water, sinking too deep. Dissolve in the darkness that flows beneath,” mirrors its emotional depth.
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Then, Falling opens with a more dream-pop tone laced with punchy rock edges. The lyric, “never gonna give up cuz I need you beside me,” captures the act of surrendering to love. Lastly, As Night Falls closes the album with intimacy and melancholy. As instruments swell and crowd the vocals, it offers a quiet reckoning, an ending both inevitable and tender.
Finally, We Are Forever unfolds as a complete emotional arc. Each track builds on the last, balancing beauty with weight and intimacy with power. The band moves seamlessly between vulnerability and power, making it feel both cinematic and intimate. By the time the last track fades out, Kallai leave behind a lingering stillness—a sense of catharsis—that cements their place as one of alt-gaze’s most compelling new voices.
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Figuring out my path while actively plotting ten others. Serious about my dreams with somewhat chaotic ambition. Will do anything for cats.
