"’Foreign Love’ is another quiet giant of a track from National Service. The opening is awash with warm pads and crystalline guitars
like the colour slowly draining from an old photo
the vocal pours out
intimate yet distant
remembering a time that once was. The song then gently lifts into the bands’ signature fluttering cross-rhythms and howling melancholy until the bridge - a dense
melting wall of sound.

“Calluna frontwoman Heather Britton’s larkensong vocal then haunts the reprisal of the first verse. Heard a second time it imbues the bitter
hollowed lyrical sentiment. The listener awakes amongst the smouldering ruins of a love
long since abandoned
ears ringing from its final requiem."

The ‘Foreign Love’ EP features previous singles ‘Islander’ (lush
languid) and ‘Timid Kisses’ (lurid
lunging
a Lammo fave) and new track ‘Looking For Your Lover’ which encapsulates their sense of restrained intensity. Much like an ancient Egyptian architect mulling over the precision of the pyramids
for National Service it’s all about the patient build. The EP is topped off by a suitably abstract and stirring remix of ‘Foreign Island’ itself by oldisland.