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For the last decade, Caroline Rose has garnered a reputation as one of indie-rock’s most unpredictable songwriters. They’re impossible to categorise, with albums like Loner and Superstar hopping from genre to genre – as Rose has said “I’m just trying to make music diverse enough that AI can’t reproduce it”.
On the evidence of the excellently titled Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall, Rose has certainly achieved that. This is probably their best album since 2018’s Loner, and has the same air of unrestrained chaos running through it. Rose has always been at their best when they’ve completely slipped off the leash, and there’s a giddy sense of excitement which runs through the record from the very first track.

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Caroline Rose’s new album, year of the slug, is loaded with one jolting pleasant surprise after the next. The glaring standout in this regard: “god- damn train.” Amidst 11 tracks veering between hazy indie pop to punky singer/songwriter fare, this centerpiece song rushes out the gate with its twangy guitar and fittingly stomping percussion.
Rose — a Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter from New York — punctuates her vocals on “god- damn train” with long held humming that echoes the best ad-libs of classic Sun Records-era country. Her lyrics here are a stream of conscious list of things she feels pressured to do in a conformist, capitalist society, before giving way to more dysfunctional urges. Best of all: her juxtaposing an ad-rep worthy boast of “more…

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