Fishtailing across a trimmed sod lawn, the parking lot of a box-store strip mall, a fast food drive-thru –it’s a hyperreal Americana fantasy that calls Caroline Rose home on Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall. The release doubles as the debut of SUCK records, the LA based artist’s own imprint—a fitting next form for an enigmatic musician whose work resists settling into one shape.
Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall stretches the ordinary into the uncanny. The record pairs sharply observed, memoiristic songwriting with expansive guitar textures that render the everyday with violent clarity and mythic scale. Beneath its melodic sweep and signature hooks runs a current of violence and American dream leakage.
It’s Ennio Morricone with an AR15: surf guitars, spaghetti westerns, and suburban dread colliding until they become their own sharp vernacular. Reality is unstable, so we’ll keep telling stories—and for Rose, the sinister slickness of the everyday grows a new head.
Caroline Rose
tiny venues, all independent, NO service fees on tickets. bypassing all ticketing platforms to ensure all your money goes to the band, crew, and venue staff. tix on sale now.
www.carolinerosemusic.com/tour
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Caroline Rose
10 years ago i wrote ‘yip yip yow’ about feeling like a little weirdo freak living in my own alt fantasy world. 10 years later the only difference is i finally have a recording of it i like. Yip Yip Yow out everywhere now!
carolinerosemusic.com/yipyipyow
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Caroline Rose
Webster Hall 4/12/23 by CJ Harvey
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Caroline Rose
bless everyone who took me seriously when i said these would be my official press photos in 2018.
Photos by Sarrah Danziger
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Caroline Rose
'year of the slug' is available on Bandcamp
carolinerosemusic.bandcamp.com/album/year-of-the-s…
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Caroline Rose
live from london available now on bandcamp! some selections from our show with the London Contemporary Ensemble (on my birthday!), including a version of a song i only ever play live, a b-side from art of forgetting as well as a bunch of new arrangements from the genius Lena K. Simon.
enjoy,
uncle carol
carolinerosemusic.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-color
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Caroline Rose
our beautiful short film will finally be available for your viewing pleasure tomorrow at 12pm ET. click "notify me" to be sent a notification before the premiere begins - this first showing will be followed by some behind the scenes content.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogyUY...
enjoy <3
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