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Dinked : Transparent LP / Bonus 7” - 2 Exclusive Additional Songs / Signed Alternative Art Print / Foil Numbered Sleeve / Limited Pressing of 600 SOLD OUT
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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 O’Malley and Llewellyn’s roots in Appalachian folk.
“Sometimes things sound much better when there’s 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. caroline’s astounding debut album is merely the first step.
Tracklist
Side A
Dark blue
Good morning (red)
desperately
IWR
messen #7
Side B
Engine (eavesdropping)
hurtle
Skydiving onto the library roof
zilch
Natural death
7” Tracklisting
Side A - good morning (red) demo
Side B - Dirty Triple (3) #2
Soundwave
https://youtu.be/QVf_weYdvx8