Caroline release deluxe edition of Caroline 2

caroline by El Harwick

Caroline’s expanded album is out now.

Caroline have given a digital release to a deluxe edition of this year’s Caroline 2 album with seven new tracks added to the original tracklist.

“These tracks are mostly early iterations of the songs released on ‘caroline 2’,” the band have explained.

“We have always loved the quality of phone and portable mic recordings: both how casual and informal they feel, but also because they tend to capture freer and more explorative playing in that precious writing stage, before a song congeals into something solid.”

It feels like there is almost something mysterious at work in these recordings that can never be replicated or mimicked. As well as the ‘When I get home’ and ‘Song two’ demos, the final track on the release – ‘greek2go’ – is also a phone recording. It was recorded in what was then the empty shell of a former Greek dark kitchen, but has since become our studio – and is an improvisation with three guitars and singing in an empty, reverberant room.

“It never made it onto the album but it is a piece of music we are really proud of.”