Product Overview
Caroline - Caroline (CD) UK eight-piece caroline’s eponymous debut album often cascades with force like an avalanche, squalling and rumbling on the edge of all-out collapse. At other points they slip back into impossibly fragile moments of quiet - a simple bassline or a rattle of snare the only sound amid a dark sea of silence. caroline know exactly the right balance between restraint and release. These songs are expansive and emotive pieces, their rich palette drawing on a mixture of choral singing, Midwestern emo and Appalachian folk. Elsewhere on the record the band have employed a collage-like technique, combining snippets of lo-fi recordings from myriad different locations - a barn in France, the members’ bedrooms and living rooms, an atmospheric swimming pool - with more traditional group sessions at the Total Refreshment Centre and their studio in Peckham. The growth that began as a scrappy guitar band above a pub many years ago is still continuing. caroline’s astounding debut album is merely the first step. TRACKLISTING 1. Dark blue 2. Good morning (red) 3. desperately 4. IWR 5. messen #7 6. Engine (eavesdropping) 7. hurtle 8. Skydiving onto the library roof 9. zilch 10. Natural death
