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CMU Approved
Approved: Carousels
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 4 August 2011
Carousels’ newly set up Facebook page currently just displays links to the numerous blogs that have covered their music of late. It kind of makes me want to use the phrase “like a rush of blogs to the head” in this piece. But I won’t because that would be awful. Let’s talk about them instead and put this whole sorry thing behind us.
Nick Benton and Lucy Wilson are Carousels. They met in Cambridge but now live in Guildford. Although they’ve been casually making music for a few years, they only recently decided to make a proper go of it. So recently, in fact, that they will not play their first gig until October, when they are due to take the stage at the Old Blue Last. Despite this minimal level of activity to date, people are getting excited about them because the few tracks they have put online are consistently very good.
They have that shoegazey sound that I possibly said had been overdone several months ago, but they do it so well I’m going to let them through. I possibly said that about another band several months ago, too. But if people will bloody well keep being good within this genre, what can I do? The tracks could do with some better production to bring out their full potential, but the way Wilson’s voice cuts through the guitar noise, rather than having it buried in reverb like so many other bands of their ilk, gives them a strong, confident sound that’s well worth checking out.
You can check out two tracks on their SoundCloud page, and another, ‘Carousel’, via the video below.
