{"title":"Caro","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"burrows","title":"Burrows","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhere some bands use their music to project a cocky false confidence, create a fashionable façade and disguise their failings, Adam Pardey uses Caro as brutal catharsis. He writes songs of isolation, introversion, mental instability, paranoia, confusion, suicide and self-loathing, yet somehow makes them sound like bright future-pop fripperies fluttering along in the slipstream of Alt-J, Everything Everything and St Vincent. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2012, Adam sequestered himself in his room and set about writing and recording the first Caro songs. Realising that he couldn’t play these songs alone, in 2014 he enrolled at Leeds College Of Music specifically to find a band. At his first class he sat next to drummer Bryn Jenkins. “He was late, and the seat next to me was the only seat left,” Adam laughs. “Since that day he’s been late to everything ever.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdmiring Bryn’s “very linear” drumming, Adam recruited him into Caro and the pair began playing acoustic shows; when Bryn toured with another band in 2015 he pilfered bassist Andrew Thompson for Caro and the full band hit the club circuits of Leeds and Bryn’s hometown of Wales. Alongside co-producer \/ mixer Hugo Meredith- Hardy, they set about recording Adam’s febrile, writhing, esoteric songs – songs walking a high-wire over the bubbling morass of modern alt-rock – while trying to find entirely new ways of making guitar music sound like a merging of the human and the technological.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the first results of Caro’s bedroom alchemy reached the internet, it sounded like the next generation of 21st Century post-pop. 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With groovy alternative pop and sacred choirs, the album questions and redefines traditional images of women, crafting a contemporary vision that encompasses the entire spectrum of the feminine.\u003cbr\u003eThis album is about permission: the permission to be, at the same time, fallible and divine, desiring and humble, strong and vulnerable. Caro reveals the archetypes that live within every woman – the mother, the child, the lover, the warrior. These are not different women, but a single woman in all her complexity.\u003cbr\u003eFrom lust to tenderness, from divinity to clumsiness, from shame to uncompromising self-determination, the songs pose the question: what if the pursuit of greatness and the fear of failure are two sides of the same coin? What if the desire to be adored and the desire for freedom can coexist? 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