Three years after their debut album, London-based post-rock band Caroline are again with information of their long-awaited sophomore album: Caroline 2 arrives Might 30 by way of Rough Trade. Main the eight-piece’s return is the lead single “Tell Me I Never Knew That,” which boasts a function from Caroline Polachek, the American pop star, for a gathering of the Caroline minds. Give it a pay attention beneath.
If you happen to’re questioning how they crossed paths with the Desire, I Want to Turn Into You musician, Caroline defined: “We wrote the opening high line collectively and right away we thought ‘This feels like a melody that Caroline Polachek would possibly sing’ in its hooky-ness. We kind of joked that we’d ask her to sing it however didn’t suppose it’d really be on the playing cards, till a few 12 months later after we despatched her the half-finished track and she or he was up for it!”
The band continued: “Caroline was superb. She wrote a load of additional components that gave the entire thing such a raise, after which spent a number of hours monitoring a load of extra improvised components. We had been nonetheless recording at about 1:30 a.m. after we determined to name it, however there was no indication that Caroline was the slightest bit drained or that she had misplaced any momentum in her skill to sing, despite the fact that she’d been singing for about 6 hours. It was an inspiring factor to witness!”
The follow-up to 2022’s Caroline opens with the group’s latest comeback observe, “Total Euphoria.” Caroline’s Jasper Llewellyn, Casper Hughes, and Mike O’Malley produced Caroline 2, which was engineered by Syd Kemp, combined by Jason Agel, and mastered by Heba Kadry.
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Caroline 2:
01 Whole Euphoria
02 Track Two
03 Inform Me I By no means Knew That
04 After I Get House
05 U R Ur Solely Aching
06 Coldplay Cowl
07 Two Riders Down
08 Lovely Ending
