Caroline Lufkin's First Album: Murmurs
 

Caroline Lufkin's first album has been completed and is set for release on March 6, 2006, but I think if you order it from her label they'll ship it early. It only has 9 tracks, but if they're as good as "Where's My Love" was, then it should be a great album!

taken from:
http://www.temporaryresidence.com/de...ions/trr97.php


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5.../Caro_murm.jpg

TRACK LISTING
1. Bicycle
2. Pink & Black
3. Sunrise
4. Where's My Love
5. Everylittlething
6. All I Need
7. Drove Me to the Wall
8. I'll Leave My Heart Behind
9. Winter

Now go buy it!!! :yes

Hmm Lufkin! Isn't it Olivias sister? :D

Yes, it is! It's Olivia Lufkin's sister! :D

(and they have a brother Jeff Lufkin who may have something in the works as well.)

Jeff raps in one of OLIVIA songs (the "something" unconscious666)

Amazing news! thanks touchedstar!

I just noticed her a couple of weeks ago on the Temporary Residence website and only later realized that this was Olivia Lufkin's sister. Might even have to check it out, seeing as she's on TR.

you should, she's awesome! you can preview "where's my love" on the temporary residence site. its very ethereal and beautiful. definitely give it a listen.

I downloaded it a while ago, but when I realised it was Olivia's sister I deleted the file immediately, lol. However, she is on TR, so I'll definitely try it.

Why?

I've had severe allergic reactions to every Olivia song I've heard. I don't just dislike her material, I find it flat-out horrible. I feared Caroline's material would be similar.

Caroline is different from Olivia, not grungy.

are you serious?! wow...i love most of Olivia's work even more than what I've heard of Caroline's. i guess to each their own. :yes

Definitely to each their own. :) Olivia just definitely isn't my cup of tea. Imo, her work is very cliché and poorly written - but of course, that is just an opinion. :yes Downloading the Caroline track now, can't wait to hear it.

Alright, it's playing right now. First impression: not bad at all. Sounds a bit like a poppier version of Noriko Tujiko's glitchpop. Not too crazy about the voice, but that's not a big issue. Will check out her album. :)

^yep, i can respect your opinion. :yes

Noriko Tujiko and glitchpop? I've never heard of either of those. Sounds interesting.

edit: wait, i looked it up...how have i never heard of glitchpop before...i LOVE what i've previewed thus far of different bands.

It's definitely worth checking out. The Japanese are easily the best at it, the range of brilliant glitch artists they have is amazing. My personal favourite would be Noriko Tujiko (or Tujiko Noriko, depends where you're looking really), whose songs are immensily beautiful. Her entire discography is worth checking out; Shojo Toshi is my personal favourite.

dont 4get "skip to e little #" aswell...

thanks4da info...
does she sing entirely in english??

Yes, "Where's My Love" is completely in english.

yeah, i fully expect the entire album to be in english seeing as how the two songs i've heard so far have been and its a u.s. release.

and sxesven, thanks a ton, i'm definitely going to be checking out a range of glitch artists.

thanks4clearin dat up guys :thumbsup would like2check dis album out if poss...

I've heard Where's my love, and it was really good. I think I'll try to get to know this artist better, it's just that she always reminds me of her sister Olivia, and I miss Olivia. Oh, please come back <3

It comes in a slipcase, apparently.

I love slipcases. ^-^

This album is great, I just heard it! I love this kind of calm music. i really wonder what this genre is called :think

I love "I'll Leave My Heart Behind" it sounds like a mix of OLIVIA's and Chihiro Onitsuka's songs :D

In Germany it will be released on March 14th or around that date and I think I might give it a try since I really loved her "Where's My Love" Single :)

ja ne

Same here :D

I cannot wait for the album, I just hope it lives up to everything. Although I like OLIVIA more, I still like Caroline, her voice is so... pretty lol.

oh yay! i love slipcases too!

i'm super excited for this album. i decided not to buy it online because i want to go to my local indie record store and buy it there. that way they know that at least someone is interested in her. :yes

Oh, this is the artist one of my friend at U-O has been recommending to me. Where's My Love is a good song.. I'm currently downloading the album..

Oooh can you upload it please??

Interesting, if I can hear some samples first I might consider buying the album. Well, after getting my over $100 order from YesAsia first -_-;. I've liked OLIVIA but I haven't heard any songs from Caroline yet. Thanks for the info!

Ah, I've been wondering who's the guy in that song ^^. For some reason it's one of my favorite tracks on The Lost Lolli even though I usually don't like rap.

I want to hear some Caroline Lufkin...:(

Anyway, thanks Brian for the news :D Hehe.

^Me Brian?^ They're too many Brians!! -.-

Anyway, only 11 day until 'Murmurs' is released. ^-^
I'm ordering online since I know most local stores won't have it.

any uk residents know if this is gettin released over here?

edit: wow, apparently it is... i couldnt find it on hmv but heres da amazon link... its only &8 o_0 and released da day after2morrow...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...138297-7839817

Ooo thanks! It's cheaper with amazon then her label.

Of course, Temporary Residence releases worldwide.

^ id never heard of temporary residence... what is it, some kind of alternative label?

Yep. They released albums by famous (indie) bands like Explosions In The Sky, Mono, Tarentel and Cex. They mostly do post-rock and anything experimental.

no, me, hahaha!

and helene, i SENT you a caroline single.... :grumpy

:P

OMG I am so embarrassed...I didn't even realise that was her. T_T....Gomen gomen!!!!

*goes to listen to it, even though it's at home in VA* :thud

http://www.myspace.com/manabu

that's jeff's myspace and you can get to caroline's from there too.

So close. .-.

I want it NOW! -.-

^i think if you order it from temporary residence they'll ship it before the release date...thats what caroline said on myspace. of course, the release date is basically here now. :)

amazon said they had it, buti guess they musta had a very limited# of copies, cos now they say dispatch within 4-6weeks, i.e not available :(
i take it its forbidden2request a download of this since it can be purchased in america??

^yeah, it would be. you can order it on her temporary residence record label site though. :yes

I picked mine up last night from a local indie record store! they had 4 or 5 copies of it there (and her single too). i LOVE this album...its amazing.

EDIT: by the way, if anyone wants the lyrics for this album (they're not in the booklet) you can get them HERE.

I really wonder why nobody ripped it b now.
The think is that I would really like to buy it but it's not that cheap at last and I have not chance to listen to it before I order it because there is no local store which has it or even heard of this album/artist ;_; that's really poor I think.
But I am used to it. There are only such mainstream artists and so on you can find here. If you really want something new and not that ordinary you need to order it from some online shop.
I would also be very happy about some - let's say - 120 sec samples of good songparts. That should be enought to decide whether to buy it now or wait until it's a bit cheaper.

ja ne

Pitchfork reviewed it: 7.8/10!

Thank you very much for the link. But I can't see any samples.

ja ne

Oh, I know. I don't know about samples. I just happen to read PitchFork and Murmurs suddenly popped up there. 7.8/10 means that they LOVE it.

The album was available for download through torrents long before the cd was even available. If you look at my posts you'll see it has been quite some time since I downloaded the files and listened to them LOL

We can't share it here under the new forum rules anyhow...as this is an American release. But samples can be found on Caroline's myspace.

http://www.myspace.com/caroline

and by the way Rins-chan, i really like your Caroline set!!!

I do not have BT and I am not willing to get it.
I am just looking for some not RealMedia samples. Since this is not my own internet connection I am not allowed to use any P2P things and stuff like this. So that's why I asked for the samples or something like this.

@touchstar: Thank you very much for the link :) that helps a little more.
And thank you. I really love this pictures of Caroline and so I was inspired by it ^-^

ja ne