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Carrousel has been working on a 4-part album series for over a decade. Part travelogue, part coming of age tale, each of the 4 albums is set within an American city that provides the landscape against which the characters’ drama plays.
Part 1: Memphis, Endless begins the journey in Memphis, where a combination of bubble gum pop and Blues/RnB chronicles the slow-dawning movement from care-free innocence to world-wearied experience.
Part 2: Nighttown shifts the drama to LA, using a seedy, soulless pop to convey the extent of that which has been lost. Gritty, grungy, dark and ambient, it is an exploration of the loss of one’s self, a space between light and shadow.
By Part 3: Magnificent Desolation, the shadow has swallowed the characters whole. Set in New York City, the record uses jazz and hip-hop grooves, industrial drum machines, vocoders, shoegaze guitars, opulent synths, strings, church organs and samples run through washed out cassette tapes – a fragmented sounding technological nightmare all in the service of exploring the beauty and chaos of one’s interior self amidst urban decay.
Part 4: Memphis, Again will be released in 2026, the first single from which is Alone in America. The single will be available on September 26, with an accompanying video to follow on October 10.
Carrousel is Sharon and Joel Piedt. They grew up in the South and now live and make music in Los Angeles. They’ve made 6 records together, and are currently working on their 7th.
Part 1: Memphis, Endless begins the journey in Memphis, where a combination of bubble gum pop and Blues/RnB chronicles the slow-dawning movement from care-free innocence to world-wearied experience.
Part 2: Nighttown shifts the drama to LA, using a seedy, soulless pop to convey the extent of that which has been lost. Gritty, grungy, dark and ambient, it is an exploration of the loss of one’s self, a space between light and shadow.
By Part 3: Magnificent Desolation, the shadow has swallowed the characters whole. Set in New York City, the record uses jazz and hip-hop grooves, industrial drum machines, vocoders, shoegaze guitars, opulent synths, strings, church organs and samples run through washed out cassette tapes – a fragmented sounding technological nightmare all in the service of exploring the beauty and chaos of one’s interior self amidst urban decay.
Part 4: Memphis, Again will be released in 2026, the first single from which is Alone in America. The single will be available on September 26, with an accompanying video to follow on October 10.
Carrousel is Sharon and Joel Piedt. They grew up in the South and now live and make music in Los Angeles. They’ve made 6 records together, and are currently working on their 7th.
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