caroline - caroline 2

caroline’s all-embracing post-rock and folk sensibilities on ‘caroline 2’ make for a grand experience from the off. Opener ‘Total euphoria’ lives up to its name, an off-kilter post-rock track with Sigur Rós-style flourishes; ‘Song two’ continues the spiritual exorcism with a stunning string squall; ‘When I get home’ beguiles over its six-plus minute runtime through an almost meditative approach; and standout ‘Two riders down’, meanwhile, sits alongside Brighton newcomers The New Eves and the Broadside Hacks collective with its ever-intensifying avant garde take on folk.

Namesake and pop icon Caroline Polachek is recruited for ‘Tell me I never knew that’, a collaboration that results in saccharine sweet folk-pop laced in honeyed harmonies. The nominative determinism doesn’t end there, either, as the ethereal, melancholic closer ‘Beautiful ending’ concludes an eight-track record that, as its title itself suggests, picks up from their 2022 debut to present caroline as post-rock titans across an expansive sequel.