Rough Trade Shops Names caroline 2 an AOTY
New 12” announced with 5 tracks
2026 US Tour Dates
‘Two riders down’ Live Video Out Today
caroline are excited to announce caroline 2 deluxe, featuring seven new tracks and out today digitally. Listen HERE.
Additionally, their 2025 album caroline 2 has been named one of Rough Trade shops’ Albums of the Year today. To celebrate they have announced a new 12” exclusive available at Rough Trade shops with 5 tracks from the band titled Not everything needs to even out, which includes some from the deluxe release of the album.
caroline announced 2026 US tour dates today, their first in support of caroline 2. All tour dates can be seen below, including previously announced UK and EU headline tours and Primavera.
The band are also sharing a live video of caroline 2 track ‘Two riders down’ filmed at Rewire festival at The Hague in April 2025.
The band say of the new music they are sharing today, “These tracks are mostly early iterations of the songs released on ‘caroline 2’. Minimal acoustic versions of ‘Total euphoria’, ‘Coldplay cover’ and ‘U R UR ONLY ACHING’; an impromptu version of ‘When I get home’ recorded in Peckham Rye park in 2022); and a recording of the first time we ever played the core of ‘Song two’.
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. As well as the ‘When I get home’ and ‘Song two’ demos, the final track on the release – ‘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.
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.”
2026 TOUR
