Caroline Rose announces The Art of Forgetting, their new album out March 24 on New West Records, and presents a new single/video, ‘Miami’.
Rose is an artist known for their wit and satirical storytelling, but for the first time, with The Art of Forgetting, Roseʼs music teems with raw, intense emotion. With no guard up this time, they present the type of confessional honesty we’ve only previously caught glimpses of in their work. Of course, Roseʼs impish humour does pop up unexpectedly amidst themes of regret and grief, loss and change, shame and the inevitability of pain.
‘Miami’ is an acoustic-centred track whose chorus of squealing guitars and bombastic drums seems to all but burst out of the speakers. Rose explains: “I’m not one to shy away from drama, and so this was a perfect opportunity to really bring out every ounce of desperation and anger and all those confusing emotions that happen after a big heartbreak.”
The ‘Miami’ video, starring Rose playing a version of themself alongside Massima Bell, was directed by Sam Bennett, and shot at the Austin Motel, Sagebrush, and a sound stage in Austin, and continues Roseʼs run of theatrical, storyline driven videos. “For the ʻMiamiʼ video, I was mainly focused on what would be the most effective way to move people in regards to the two characters and how they interact,” says Rose. “Because this is a sort of loose recreation of some things in my life it was important to me to interpret the feeling of that time as accurately as we could within 4 minutesʼ time. Sam, who is a dear friend of mine and brilliant director, thought a great way to capture that fever-dream-like quality was to create a lot of movement with a continuous shot. He showed me different lenses and cameras to use and we ultimately went with an anamorphic, Old Hollywood-esque feel, which gives it that nostalgia thinking back on a time past.”
The Art of Forgetting:
- Love / Lover / Friend
- Rebirth
- Miami
- Better Than Gold
- Everywhere I Go I Bring the Rain
- The Doldrums
- The Kiss
- Cornbread
- Stockholm Syndrome
- Tell Me What You Want
- Florida Room
- Love Song For Myself
- Jill Says
- Where Do I Go From Here?
