{"product_id":"caroline-caroline","title":"Caroline - Caroline","description":"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. 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","brand":"ROUGH TRADE","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP","offer_id":53201962107207,"sku":"TRI-08196","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/679b9d3b308b4b82c0503916f8ffda7a.jpg?v=1769320321","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/caroline-caroline","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}