caroline - Not everything needs to even out

Tracklist:

1. greek2go
2. U R UR ONLY ACHING (demo)
3. _you never really get that far_ (Coldplay cover)
4. When I get you home (demo)
5. Before you get home from the club bathroom

These tracks are mostly early iterations of the songs released on ‘caroline 2’.

Minimal acoustic versions of ‘Coldplay cover’ and ‘U R UR ONLY ACHING’; an impromptu version of ‘When I get home’ recorded in Peckham Rye park in 2022 ); we have also included a recording of the club track from the first half of ‘When I get home’. This was recorded from the front bathroom of Avalon Cafe and is a track produced by our friends Daniel S Evans and Jennifer Walton.

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. ‘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