Carolina Lee releases It's Still Now
The four-piece Berlin band Carolina Lee arranges the lyrical songs of singer Nadja Carolina into a minimalist sound reminiscent of female singer-songwriters of the 70s and the dream pop of the 90s. Their songs combine guitar, bass, drums and keyboards to create slow, dreamy, even hypnotic compositions.
Behind singer Nadja Carolina’s melodies, delivered with a dark timbre, lie rhythms that are sometimes vaguely reminiscent of early 90s hip-hop or 70s soul music. A psychedelic guitar weeps gently, an old rhythm machine makes an appearance, a Casio keyboard plays sounds that could have been borrowed from a John Carpenter soundtrack and a discreetly laid-back bass holds it all together.
The music creates a maelstrom that draws you into a time warp between yesterday and today. Despite an underlying everpresent melancholy, the sound of the new songs is more playful and hopeful than that of the 2021 debut Haunted Houses.
It’s Still Now is a personal album. The lyrics are about loss and new beginnings, about walks through the sometimes seemingly strange hometown of Berlin, about new love, care work and lonely nights in half-empty bars, where you are not prepared for the hope that suddenly hits you.
It’s Still Now was recorded in collaboration with musician and producer Max Braun in an old farmhouse in northern Germany and it is available now at the following link :
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