I make slightly better than mediocre beats

Well-read. Consider myself quite the bibliophile, actually, yet there’s likely only a handful of books that I have “stuck-it-out” for, and really read to their fullest of entirety, at least voluntarily that is. Books are just f**king challenging to finish—most things are, in my opinion—challenging when there are so goddamn many books and so goddamn many things both to read and to do. I’m currently mopping floors and collecting trash bags. But philosophically and especially existentially I’m content and have just as little ambition at life as when I started. Handsome looks as much as handsome in wit. A Socialist I VOTE DEMOCRAT. Everyone cross your fingers, as we’re still waiting for that catastrophic gardening accident to happen in one of the white house flower beds.  ** And I’m not really wishing anything truly awful on to anyone, no matter what, instead just staying hopeful for some whimsical, shameful accident. That moment where the guy fell back and on to a cucumber or handle of his backhoe or some other big misery, where he gets humbled down a few notches.

Philadelphia’s Carroll (two R’s, two L’s) was born in late 2011 when frontman Brian Hurlow started composing melancholic pop songs that caught the ear of college classmate and drummer Charlie Rudoy. The lifelong musicians clicked and moved in together to a house on Carroll Avenue, coining the psychedelic, shoegazey-pop band’s name. After guitarist Max Kulicke and bassist Charles McClung came on board for the live show, Carroll started turning heads. Since the release of their Needs EP, they’ve become a mainstay on The Current, the Twin Cities’ triple A NPR affiliate station, and were named Best New Band by the two biggest local arts publications. In February of 2014, the band escaped the frigid Minnesota winter to Philly’s Miner Street Recordings where they cut the Carroll full-length in 17 days with the expertise of engineer Jonathan Low, whose albums produced for the National, (Mr.) Twin Sister,and Local Natives have reached critical acclaim and notable industry recognition. With Hurlow‘s subdued yet distinct vocals accompanied by Rudoy’s punctual drums and all-around alluring riff vignettes, Carroll’s self-titled debut will leave you bewitched. After a string of festival gigs this summer sharing stages with the likes of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Sylvan Esso, Polica, Low, Carroll heads out on a  month-long tour in support of their forthcoming LP.

Followers of Carroll