Caroline Announce Second Album With New Single Tell Me I Never Knew That Feat Caroline Polachek
Tuesday, 15 April 2025
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Henry Redcliffe
Caroline have announced their sophomore album.
The follow-up to their 2022 self-titled debut is aptly titled 'Caroline 2', will arrive on May 30 via Rough Trade and features their March single Total Euphoria. Produced by the band’s core trio of Jasper Llewellyn, Casper Hughes and Mike O’Malley, it was written in Margate and Essex over a period of 18 months, before recording sessions at Ramsgate's Big Jelly Studios.
"The first record was a compilation, but this one is a declaration,” explained Llewellyn. "It’s more intentional," added O'Malley. "We were just about an eight-person band on the last one, but now we’re a proper eight-person band," Llewellyn concluded.
Alongside the news, the London post-rock eight-piece have shared a captivating new single featuring New York multi-hyphenate Caroline Polachek, Tell Me I Never Knew That, which is experimental from the word go, opening with soothing acoustic guitar. The band explained:
"We used to call this one ‘Backstreet boys’ because the opening top line felt like a Backstreet Boys song. The main riff was written by Casper on acoustic guitar and stuck out as a really catchy, bouncy, hypnotic thing. We wrote the opening top line together and straight away we thought ‘this sounds like a melody that Caroline Polachek might sing’ in its hooky-ness. We sort of joked that we’d ask her to sing it but didn’t think it’d actually be on the cards, until about a year later when we sent her the half-finished song and she was up for it!
"Caroline was amazing. She wrote a load of extra parts that gave the whole thing such a lift, and then spent a few hours tracking a load of more improvised parts. We were still recording at about 1.30am when we decided to call it, but there was no indication that Caroline was the slightest bit tired or that she had lost any momentum in her ability to sing, even though she’d been singing for about 6 hours. It was an inspiring thing to witness! We did a little bit more re-ordering together with Caroline a few weeks after the session and then the song was finally there."
Head below to view the song's accompanying video, which was shot by Polachek and the band, who said: "This video collates footage from the last few years from the phones of lots of people that we love. Putting it together was a rush of euphoric nostalgia. We hope you enjoy."
Caroline will tour the UK between May 31 and June 8, before an appearance at Green Man festival in Brecon, Wales in August. Tickets for the tour are on sale now. Green Man is sold out.
'Caroline 2' tracklist:
1.Total euphoria
2.Song two
3.Tell me I never knew that
4.When I get home
5.U R UR ONLY ACHING
6.Coldplay cover
7.Two riders down
8.Beautiful ending
Caroline Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Sat May 31 2025 - BRISTOL Trinity Centre
Sun June 01 2025 - FALMOUTH King Charles The Martyr Church
Tue June 03 2025 - LONDON Islington Assembly Hall
Wed June 04 2025 - CARDIFF Gate
Fri June 06 2025 - MANCHESTER Band on the Wall
Sat June 07 2025 - GLASGOW Saint Luke's
Sun June 08 2025 - LEEDS Brudenell Social Club
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