LABEL: Rough Trade

CAT NO: RT0150LP

BARCODE: 191402015010

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

caroline caroline

LP Black Vinyl

UK eight-piece carolines 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 OMalley and Llewellyns roots in Appalachian folk.

Sometimes things sound much better when theres empty space, says Llewellyn. Sometimes you might populate [a song] with too many things and forget that an element on its own is enough. Elsewhere on the record the band have employed a collage-like technique, combining snippets of lo-fi recordings from a myriad of different locations a barn in France, the members bedrooms and living rooms, the atmospheric swimming pool in which they also filmed sublime live sessions for Dark blue and Skydiving onto the library roof 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. carolines astounding debut album is merely the first step.

See below for tracklisting