It’s caroline as you’ve always heard them, yet also as you’ve never heard them before. On ‘Good Morning’, caroline build an early song, based around one riff, into what I consider to be their statement track. Interwoven between the usual expected hallmarks of your great ethereal post rock song, vocal layers are built atop of each other, before breaking loose in such bold ways that it is hard to forget. Devoid of reverb, and arguably classed as it’s own instrument, Casper Hughes’s voice on this track is impeccable. Letting out shouted refrains about his views on the political climate circa 2017 (CAN I BE HAPPY WITH THE WORLD? WE’LL HAVE TO CHANGE IT, IT DOESN’T SUIT US). It’s a goosebump worthy moment, only to be followed by a few minutes of disjointedness, merely held together by a domineering bassline. It’s as if this is the last thing someone is fighting to hear during the final stages of dementia.
The band explain that “as we got interested in other sounds and recording techniques, we always came back to ‘Good morning’, reworking it and developing it in line with whatever we were interested in at the time. In its final recorded form, it’s kind of a song in two halves. The first half is how the band started: us playing a long song live in a room. And the second half is more what we are interested in now: different recorded worlds co-existing and colliding with one another. It’s the first song we ever wrote so it’s exciting that people are finally going to hear it in recorded form.”
Their debut self titled album will be released on February 25 2022, and can be pre-ordered here. Accompanied by their new single comes a set of tour dates, which can be found below.
February
25th February – London, Rough Trade East
March
Thu 24 – Margate – The Margate Caves
Fri 25 – Cardiff – Shift
Sat 26 – Bristol – Tobacco Factory
Sun 27 – Brighton – West Hill Hall
Wed 30 – Ipswich – The Baths
Thu 31 – Leeds – Brudenell Social Club
April
1st April – Newcastle – Gosforth Civic Centre
Sat 2 – Glasgow – Audio
Sun 3 – Edinburgh – Summerhall
Mon 4 – Manchester – Soup Kitchen
Tue 5 – Cambridge – Unitarian Church
Thu 7 – London – Cecil Sharp House
EU
April
Tue 19 – Paris – Les Instant Chavirés
Thu 21 – Rotterdam – Motel Mozaique
Fri 22 – Rotterdam – Motel Mozaique
Sat 23 – Rotterdam – Motel Mozaique
Mon 25 – Berlin – Silent Green
Tue 26 – Jena – Trafo
Wed 27 – Brussels, Botanique
Thu 28 – Arlon, Les Aralunaires
Fri 29 – St Gallen – Palace
Sat 30 – Lausanne, Association du Salopard
May
Tue 3rd – Barcelona, Razzmatazz
Wed 4th – Madrid, Moby Dick
Thu 5th – Lisbon – ZDB
Photo Credit: Tom Whitson
