Caroline Rose

Caroline Rose – The Art of Forgetting (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:32 minutes | 563 MB | Genre: Indie Pop, Indie Rock, Female Vocal
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Early in their career, Caroline Rose favored an acoustic-driven sound hewing toward a more folk and Americana direction. But even then, the Long Island-raised songwriter resisted pigeonholing: The bruising “At Midnight,” from 2014’s I Will Not Be Afraid, cut closer to the scraping blues-rock favored by PJ Harvey or The Kills. When Rose embraced minimalist disco and dreamy electro on 2020’s Superstar, the pivot felt completely logical—just another facet of themselves they’re peeling away and exploring.

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Caroline Rose – Superstar (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 38:03 minutes | 456 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
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Here comes SUPERSTAR-the bigger, badder, glitter-driven record by Caroline Rose. Written as a sequel to 2018’s LONER, the forthcoming 2020 release “plays out like an epic movie about the pursuit of fame and fortune,” Rose states. “I’ve always been fascinated by this pursuit, but what’s even more fascinating is what happens when it fails.” Indeed, gone are the successful Hollywood hunks and starlets of old. SUPERSTAR chronicles a quirky anti-hero, who after receiving a wrong call from the elite hotel Chateau Marmont, decides to leave their old life behind in order to become a big Hollywood star.

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Caroline Rose – Loner (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 35:01 minutes | 392 MB | Genre: Alternative
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After a first album that was indie folk blended with rockabilly, which was released in 2014 (I Will Not Be Afraid), Caroline Rose changes up her repertoire. With Loner, the young American opens up her pop chakra and gives birth to a super seductive record. “I would say that this album is as much inspired by Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears as by the punk of the 70s,” confides Rose who is much more well rounded but not settling. With her touches of vintage synths, her wavey guitars and her punk like attitude, Loner offers an unlikely canvas in which the imprisoned spirit of The Tiger, Blondie, Devo, Justin Timberlake, Courtney Barnett, Cramps, Sallie Ford and even Kate Bush are found. It’s sweet, it’s offbeat, it’s mischievous and possibly addictive with tracks like the single “Jeannie Becomes a Mom”

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