Premiere: Le Carousel – The Good One

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Ten years is a long time to sit with an idea.

There was an Old Man of Le Carousel, Who lived in a place he could never quite spell,
He scrapped five whole albums and grew a petri dish, And played dreamy synthscapes to a shoegaze-fried fish.

The Good One! The Good One! they warbled and spun, With gauzy-voiced vocals and languid languid drums,
Phil Kieran recorded it under the moon, While NEU! played the kettle and Kraftwerk the spoon.

And when it was done, said Phil with a sigh, “I’m happy, I’m done, and I bid you goodbye!”
So he folded Le Carousel up with great care, And posted it off through the cold Belfast air.

For Phil Kieran – DJ, producer, film composer and the Belfast-based mind behind Le Carousel – it was closer to twelve years, the span it took to bring The Humans Will Destroy Us to life. The follow-up to his cult debut lands on 13th March via Phil Kieran Recordings, and it arrives fully formed: part shoegaze-inflected electronics, part Kosmische drift, part dancefloor catharsis – a record that feels like it was built for sweaty rooms and wistful 4am journeys home in equal measure.

‘The Good One’ sits near the top of that journey, all sparkling synths, gauzy vocals and hypnotic languid beats – the kind of track that calls to mind Andrew Weatherall at his most blissed-out, coaxing Primal Scream into something simultaneously weightless and urgent. It’s radio-friendly in the best possible sense: a pop song with depth behind its eyes.

The Humans Will Destroy Us is out 13th March. Stream ‘The Good One’ below.

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