Three years on from the release of debut album caroline, London-based eight-piece caroline recently announced new album caroline 2, to be released on May 30th via Rough Trade Records. The group spent 18 months working across various writing sessions in the UK, with recording primarily taking place at Big Jelly Studios in Ramsgate. The album was produced by the band’s own Jasper Llewellyn, Casper Hughes and Mike O’Malley, engineered by Syd Kemp, mixed by Jason Agel and mastered by Heba Kadry in NYC.
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caroline
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caroline 2
Rough Trade
South London collective get more direct on second LP
caroline’s 2022 debut drew soft power from the tension between the slow-drip of their post-rock chamber music and the intemperate feelings teeming within it. On caroline 2 however, those emotions are in the foreground; they build and explode, yielding deconstructed pocket symphonies that are grand and intimately affecting. They remain playfully experimental: opener Total Euphoria’s shifting tempos, whispered vocals and keening melodies build to a crescendo so loud it obliterates the tape; there’s the occasional foray into Auto-Tune; the archly-titled Coldplay Cover begins as a voice-note and grows into something lovely and anthemic. But there’s a newfound earnestness and openess to caroline’s songcraft, owing more this time to heart-on-sleeve late – 90’s US emo like American Football. Thet now plot direct paths to the catharsis that was delayed and drawn-out in their earlier work; their beautiful, rousing music is more accessible and lucid as a result. – Steve Chick (Mojo Magazine July 2025)
caroline are – Jasper Llewellyn – acoustic guitar, cello, drums, vocals. Mike O’Malley – electric guitar, vocals. Casper Hughes – electric guitar, vocals. Oliver Hamilton – violin. Magdalena McLean – viola, vocals. Freddy Wordsworth – trombone, trumpet, bass. Alex McKenzie – bass clarinet, flute, saxophone. Hugh Aynsley – drums, percussion.
caroline
caroline 2
30th May 2025 Release
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Album Tracklisting
1.Total euphoria
2.Song two
3.Tell me I never knew that
4.When I get home
5.U R UR ONLY ACHING
6.Coldplay cover
7.Two riders down
8.Beautiful ending
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