Constantly evolving London-based eight-piece Caroline returned with their first new music in three years, Total euphoria. The group’s new output sees them evolving with the influence of new technologies & avant-garde producers. 

Total euphoria features Jasper Llewellyn and Magdalena McLean singing in unison above the fray while the swirling sound beneath them builds and builds in intensity – trombone, bass clarinet and harmonium infusing themselves one at a time in layers as the sound hurtles towards escape velocity. Then, just as a sharp upward swoop of violin threatens to push things stratospheric, comes a colossal counterblast of electronic noise that cuts it all in two. That overwhelming plummet takes over entirely for a few seconds, before the initial attack of guitars and drums rallies back upwards in turn, the two sounds pushing and pulling in mid-air, then finally dovetailing – two sonic worlds moving as one. The track is well-titled; Total euphoria delivers just that.  The song’s accompanying video was directed by Parker Corey a musician and director from Phoenix, Arizona mostly known for his work as a member of Injury Reserve (now By Storm).

The group explain the origins of Total euphoria, “The first iteration of this song was played as a three (Mike, Casper and Jasper) in 2020 while we were writing our first album. 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.

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