caroline are back with a new single, ‘Total euphoria’. The first taste of new music from the the London-based band since their 2022 self-titled LP is as relentlessly vivacious as its title suggests. Featuring Jasper Llewellyn and Magdalena McLean singing in unison, the track arrives with a video directed by Parker Corey, a musician and director from Phoenix, Arizona best known for his work as a member of By Storm (fka Injury Reserve). Check it out below.
“The first iteration of this song was played as a three (Mike, Casper and Jasper) in 2020 while we were writing our first album,” the group explained in a statement. “It was a similar style to the guitars in the back half of Natural Death – off-kilter/syncopated – but played much wonkier and messier, and then with a broken rock beat kind of erupting at different moments. It somehow didn’t quite fit with the music we were writing/recording at the time but there was a kernel in there of something we felt we would want to explore later.”
“Eventually it became one of many things that we’ve happened upon that felt good to play for 20 mins straight,” they continued. “This one felt especially good as it was very consistently ‘loud’ and full on which was maybe a bit unusual for us at the time, and also everyone was playing these three different rhythms simultaneously which made it feel endlessly cyclical. Jasper then took the main chords and wrote a load of really nice top line stuff for singing, then we put together all the other parts with the rest of the band and finalised a structure. We realised the golden potential of how good it sounded with Jasper and Magda singing in unison also as a style, and they wrote some extra vocals and harmonies together.”
