caroline + My New Band Believe
Revel in the euphoric melancholy of caroline’s expansive sound and the all-encompassing, always-in-flux music of My New Band Believe.
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caroline’s founding members Casper Hughes, Jasper Llewellyn and Mike O’Malley first started playing together in 2017. Now, they’re an eight-piece band completed by trumpeter and bassist Freddy Wordsworth, violinists Oliver Hamilton and Magdalena McLean, percussionist Hugh Aynsley, and flute, clarinet and saxophone player Alex McKenzie.
Their second album caroline 2 is a step beyond their debut album’s explorations of repetition, slowness and space, embracing a bolder, more expansive sound. It’s a record of dynamic contrasts – organic and electronic, raw and refined.
Launched with the striking single ‘Tell me I never knew that’, featuring Caroline Polachek’s unmistakable vocals, caroline 2 showcases a fearless interplay of layered instrumentation, warped vocal processing and moments of both euphoria and melancholy. Intentional and immersive, this next chapter solidifies caroline as one of the most innovative voices in contemporary music.
My New Band Believe is led by Cameron Picton, bassist and sometime frontman of black midi, with whom he practiced an explosive form of musical world-building, weaving complex storytelling through thrilling passages of controlled chaos.
The moniker serves as an open invitation, a subtle nod to listeners willing to meet the music on its own terms, to reap the rewards of taking a flying leap into the dark. Picton leads his band so that each track forms, scatters and re-groups, the uplift of one song crashing head-long into the rush of another.
Inspired by Bert Jansch’s hypnotic, hard-driving guitar, Judee Sill’s panoramic pop and the terrifying possibility of dance music, My New Band Believe is both all-encompassing and constantly in flux.
Presented by Southbank Centre and Bird On The Wire.
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19 Jul 2026, 7.30pm
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