Name: Carm
Brand: Carm

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

37d011lp

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Colour

Black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2021-01-22

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

656605361147

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

37d011cd

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656605361130

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Carm

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

37d03d

The music of ​CARM​ features horns in roles typically reserved for drums, guitars, and voices, while also escaping the genre categorizations reserved for music featuring an instrumentalist as bandleader. It is not jazz or classical music, nor is it a soundtrack. This is contemporary popular music that features a sound normally used as a background color and texture as the unabashed lead voice. 

Produced in Minneapolis by ​Ryan Olson​ (​Polica​, L​izzo​) and featuring collaborations with ​Sufjan Stevens​,​Justin Vernon​ (​BonIver​), Y​o La Tengo​ ,​Shara Nova​, ​Mouse on Mars​, ​Francis and the Lights​ and many others. It is a completely unique sound that additionally serves as a survey of the collaborations that have come to define the artist’s career thus far. 

The album begins with an orchestral brass choir of french horns, which quickly gives way to a piano sample from Francis, as Stevens and ​Lupin​ combine voices over a lush bed of horns to sing “Song of Trouble.” The album bookends with the same piano sample used as a springboard to an iconic lyric by Vernon in the album closer “Land.” Between these two generation-defining artists we have upward sweeping melodies and fanfares reminiscent of ​Ennio Morricone​. The acutely original sound of ​Georgia Hubley​ and ​Ira Kaplan ​of Yo La Tengo in “Already Gone” give way to the virtuoso sound of Nova’s voice. A more experimental path emerges before the strings from yMusic bring us back to the piano sample that started the record. Instead of recycling well-trodden sounds, CARM offers a respite for those seeking an original voice. 

Music US

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