{"id":5153,"date":"2025-10-17T15:21:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/?post_type=event&#038;p=5153"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:20:16","slug":"caroline","status":"publish","type":[14],"link":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/event\/2026\/caroline\/","title":{"rendered":"caroline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Londoners caroline have never been easy to pin down. A rising band, they began as a trio and expanded into an octet through improvisation sessions. In 2022, they released their eponymous debut album, a collection of songs that seek slowness, space, and repetition. In between one could discern an immaculate roaster of influences: 1970s British folk, Appalachian music, the Microphones\u2019 avant-folk, American Football\u2019s Midwest emo, and, of course, the post-rock of Slint, Tortoise, and Broken Social Scene.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Like any great sequel, <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">caroline 2 <\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(2025) is a step forward. Orchestral when it needs to be, minimalist when the music calls for it, it is an LP that transcends structures and genres. Announced with <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Tell me I never knew that<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, featuring Caroline Polachek\u2019s unmistakable voice, it thrives on collisions and contradictions to shape spontaneity and the process of creating music as a group. The result is eight tracks that push and pull between extremes, from simple melodies to walls of sound and devastating instrumentation. We could write in depth about each detail but let\u2019s focus on just one song. In <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Coldplay cover<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> the band splits into two, occupies two rooms, and plays different compositions at the same time, while a microphone records every moment. Experiments like these, bands such as caroline, are what keeps music alive \u2013 an unpretentious tribute to the moment when eight musicians let themselves be guided by the total euphoria of writing and playing songs until everything becomes a breath in unison.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Released at the tail-end of May, <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">caroline 2<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> has garnered rave reviews from critics and has been featured on Pitchfork, The Quietus, and NME&#8217;s best of the year lists. The band has been playing sold-out concerts across Europe and is coming to Portugal this spring for two concerts, on a unique opportunity to see and hear live a group that is sure to be heading for bigger stages. \u202f\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rAg3YuHkMHQ?si=vPTDlw00sZjcX-II\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/1CmdanwOGnV5QevtJQL6bN?utm_source=generator&amp;theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-section__content event__content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>support\u00a0<\/strong>portuguese republic \u2013 culture \/ general direction of the arts. rtcp \u2013 network of portuguese theaters and cinemas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Londoners caroline have never been easy to pin down. A rising band, they began as a trio and expanded into an octet through improvisation sessions. In 2022, they released their eponymous debut album, a collection of songs that seek slowness, space, and repetition. In between one could discern an immaculate roaster of influences: 1970s British <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/event\/2026\/caroline\/\" title=\"Learn More\">Learn More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5156,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-5153","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","type-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/5153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/5153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5255,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/5153\/revisions\/5255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type?post=5153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}