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These songs are expansive and emotive pieces, their rich palette drawing on a mixture of choral singing, Midwestern emo and O’Malley and “Sometimes things sound much better when there’s empty space,” says Llewellyn. “Sometimes you might populate [a song] with too many things and forget that an element on its own is enough.” Elsewhere on the record the band have employed a collage-like technique, combining snippets of lo-fi recordings from a myriad of different locations – a barn in France, the members’ bedrooms and living rooms, the atmospheric swimming pool in which they also filmed sublime live sessions for ‘Dark blue’ and ‘Skydiving onto. The growth that began as a scrappy guitar band above a pub many years ago is still continuing. 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Fleshed out over several songwriting trips across Scotland, France and England, caroline’s second album picks up where its predecessor left off, but in many, many others, it finds them breaking new ground. It makes for a record of extraordinary scope – where the organic and the artificial, the harsh and the beautiful, the pristine and the hazy all clash and combine. ‘Tell me I never knew that’ welcomes a new voice entirely in Caroline Polachek. A mutual fan, Polachek agreed not only to contribute to a song, but to push it even further. “She was a force to be reckoned with,” says O’Malley. “She was singing for five or six hours, writing new harmonies.” On caroline 2, what were once incidental moments have become an intentional centerpiece. On ‘Coldplay cover’ (a joke name that ended up sticking), half of the band started playing in their manager’s living room, the other half in the kitchen, while engineer Syd Kemp physically took a microphone from one room to the other. 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