tuesday · week 43
the crowd's
week
19 to 25 October 2026
Six records out on October 23: Olivia Tremor Control's farewell, Michael Kiwanuka's return and Caroline Rose up front. Plus the ES Radio show. Two minutes.
featured
Caroline Rose
— Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall
indie pop · US
Caroline Rose has never made the same record twice, and Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall confirms it. After year of the slug, recorded in GarageBand on a phone, Rose raises the bar and hands production to John Congleton. There are eleven songs, released on SUCK Records, Rose's own label, peopled by outsiders who often come out of real situations. "Chow Mein" is the best example: a portrait of someone trying too hard to be cool and seem normal while everything goes wrong. "Yip Yip Yow", the first single, shows the record's more energetic side. The humour, the theatricality and the taste for strangeness stay, now with more muscle. It has a user score of 80, still on few votes. It is indie pop from someone who doesn't take themselves too seriously, and it deserves a place on our radar.
also in this week's post
short notes
Tramhaus play Casa Capitão, Lisbon, on March 16, 2027. Tickets are on sale now at DICE.
The Lisbon date is the tour for Tramhaus' second album, the follow-up to The First Exit. We'll save the record for the week it comes out.
Every announced show gets a warm-up playlist — it shows here and on the show page, and stays in the archive afterwards.
short notes
Tramhaus play Casa Capitão, Lisbon, on March 16, 2027. Tickets are on sale now at DICE.
The Lisbon date is the tour for Tramhaus' second album, the follow-up to The First Exit. We'll save the record for the week it comes out.