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SUPERSTAR (2020)

“she’s become great at making this weird outsider pop that’s really conceptually rich.” - NPR Music

“she is really playful and experimental, in every way.” - NPR Music

“l just love how colorful the record is, it’s a little bent, and it just kept surprising me.” - NPR Music

"Its music is dance pop with catchy melodies and grooves, sterling production, and a brash attitude.” - Newsweek

"Superstar is Rose doing a cannonball into the deep end of the synth-pop pool. She finds her groove with vivid storytelling and oddball sound effects that elevate her songs to otherworldly status.” - No Depression

"a major star turn.” - The AV Club

"For Superstar, Rose not only adds the glam sheen of pop production, but creates a roughly 40-minute voyage into the rise and fall of an overly ambitious pop star who is out to prove everyone who said they weren't good enough wrong.” - Billboard

“[Rose] brings Princely funk, new-wave sparkle and an underlying Lynchian eeriness to a character study in 10 acts that straddles aspirational satire and hair-raising psychodrama.” - Uncut

“Superstar is a bold and skillfully crafted body of work--a winking reflection on ambition, heartbreak, and regret--that speaks to Rose’s gift as an artist, while also speaking to our own secret desires.” - BUST

“Superstar is a synth-pop opera lush with synthesizers and melodic earworms. Over 38 minutes, Caroline Rose's lyrics about ambition, overconfidence, desperation and disappointment transform the moments of sonic tension and drama into a narrative drama that threads the whole album together.” - NPR Music, Top Albums for March

“"On Superstar, Rose creates a character who straddles the line between ambition and delusion. It’s alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, but invigorating all the way.” - American Songwriter, Best of 2020 So Far

"A highlight off formerly rootsy songwriter Rose’s synth-y fourth album, Superstar, riding a Prince groove wherever she wants it to take her, “Feel the Way I Want” sounds like a sweaty dance club well past midnight. Rose makes her stubborn insistence on independence (sonic, sexual, professional) sound a whole lot like liberation: “I’m so in love with myself,” she sings. “It’s so romantic.” Self-love never sounded so funky.” - Rolling Stone, Best Songs of 2020

"a hungry artist on a quest for constant evolution...Lead single 'Feel The Way I Want' is a lose-yourself dance track, but 'Freak Like Me' is a classy piano ballad. There’s no telling what the entirety of Superstar will sound like. What can’t this girl do?” - Paste

"There’s humor to the premise and all kinds of color in lead single 'Feel The Way I Want,' which pulses with 16-bit synths and a vibrant, funky rhythm. As on her last LP, Loner, Rose’s energy is infectious.” - AV Club

"Caroline Rose's Superstar is often quite grand in a DIY-kind of way. Think of 1980s era MTV rock performed on a Casio keyboard with a sampler in your bedroom as recreated on modern technology.” - PopMatters

"Rose shines a disco light on shame, lets panic leap into a bouncing gait that's faked-till-it's-made. And though she masterfully wields the absurdity of hubris, she also doesn't ridicule what she finds. She asks the misfits of the human psyche what they want and what scares them, and gives them a whole floor to do their dance. They laugh together, let loose and sweat off their blush.” - Exclaim

"I'm starting to think that Caroline Rose is a real-time pop art installation reflecting the world via a fun house mirror. On "Feel The Way I Want," buoyant synth chords and a funky bass line propel what feels like '80s-era-Prince-meets-inspirational-choruses. It's easy on first listen to love the disco-strut pace and catchy hooks, but the sweet melody Rose sings also hides a horror-comedy of confidence with lyrics like, "Maybe it's just madness / I'm so in love with myself / It's so romantic." Maybe it's someone you know (or even you).” - NPR Music

“[Rose] brings so much wild energy to the stage that her already appealing songs start to feel like works of genius. She’s a born performer...She began by busting a move in ostentatious shades and ended behind a guitar, eyes wide. Rose is at her best when she’s rocking the hardest, but this song’s contagious synth groove is certainly winsome too.” - Stereogum

"the most entertaining performance we’ve seen in quite a while.” - Paste

"If the verses on Rose’s latest represent the troubles and turmoil she’s faced over the past half-decade as she’s carved out her own artistic path, the chorus celebrates her arrival with triumphant nonsense . . . It’s the sound of a singer finally, and gloriously, stumbling into herself.” — Rolling Stone

PRESS PHOTOS

LONER (2018)

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praise for loner

"On her self-assured second album, this singer-songwriter uses her mordant wit to confront serious subjects, exorcising trauma with hooks and humor." - Pitchfork (7.6 out of 10)

"Rose has a newly loosed imagination and a flair for exaggerating the absurdities we're living with, and the way she's put them to use is a timely gift.” - NPR Music
   
“This records has the force of true originality…" - NPR Music

"Caroline Rose sharpens her musical attack along with her wit on her second album” - Rolling Stone

"Loner has a similar draw—it’s a deft blend of rockabilly and synth-pop glossed with a thick coat of soul that is fast, fun, guttural, screaming, smirking.” - Rolling Stone

"On LONER, Rose’s sound has expanded in a zillion directions, each track bursting with ideas and personality.” - Stereogum "Artist to Watch"

“In an era of endless, ear-numbing streams, LONER grabs your chin and commands your eyes.” - Consequence of Sound

“...a bold, kaleidoscopic collection that propels Rose far beyond the fetching rockabilly of her debut” - Consequence of Sound

"Rose’s fine new album LONER finds the New York-based singer-songwriter exploring an entirely new musical aesthetic without sacrificing any of the mischievous spark that coursed through her earlier work. Rose has ditched roots-rock in favor of a punchier, studio-powered pop sound, packed with danceable beats, prominent synths, big choruses and plenty of swagger. She remains unafraid of singing about serious subjects (capitalism, sexism, death, etc.) but on LONER, she delivers it through a bold, candy-colored filter that’s always intriguing and often irresistible." - Paste Magazine

"Rose is a joy to behold . . . LONER whacks the listener swiftly upside the head with our red-clad protagonist's winning charisma, leaving ya dizzy and begging for more.” - Under The Radar (8.5/10)

"Loner has a similar draw—it’s a deft blend of rockabilly and synth-pop glossed with a thick coat of soul that is fast, fun, guttural, screaming, smirking.” - Vinyl Me, Please

“This record has the force of true originality…" - Flood Magazine

"LONER is the pop record that has been surging inside Rose and the urgency and electricity that vibrate from it are enough to confirm: She’s arrived and she’s not going anywhere.” - No Depression

PREMIERES/EXCLUSIVES

NPR Music – LONER First Listen

NPR Music – Songs We Love: "Getting to Me"

Noisey – "Money" Video Premiere

Rookie Magazine – "Soul No. 5" Video Premiere

ALBUM ACCOLADES

"Jeannie Becomes A Mom" Top 20 For NPR's “Best Songs of 2018”

LONER #48 For NPR's “Listeners' 100 Favorite Albums of 2018”

"Jeannie Becomes A Mom" NPR World Cafe's “Best Songs of 2018”

"Bikini" For Paste Magazine’s “Top 50 Songs of 2018”

"Getting To Me" For American Songwriter's “Top Songs of 2018”

Rolling Stone – "10 New Albums To Stream Now"

Stereogum – "The 101 Most Anticipated Albums of 2018"

Stereogum – "Artist To Watch"

Paste Magazine – "The 10 Best Albums of February 2018"

Paste Magazine – "Favorite Songs of the Week"

Baeble Music – "Song of the Day: 'Money'"

FEATURES

Rolling Stone - "Caroline Rose Is Making Fun of Everything"

Consequence of Sound Track-by-Track

LADYGUNN – Caroline Rose Spotlight

Vinyl Me, Please – "Caroline Rose’s ‘Loner’ And The Art Of Silly Protest"

OUT Magazine – "Caroline Rose is Here to Be Herself, 'Middle Fingers Up & No F*cks Given'"

Nashville Scene – "Meet the Many Sides of Caroline Rose on LONER"

AXS – "Caroline Rose talks tour, change, inspiration from Radiohead’s ‘garbage album’"

ALBUM REVIEWS

Pitchfork, Paste Magazine, Under The Radar, All Music, Glide Magazine, Flood Magazine, mxdwn, No Depression, Journal Star, Old Rookie, The Revue, Ear Buddy, Immortal Reviews, Northern Transmissions, 7th Level Music, Atlas and the Anchor, WGBU-FM, The Western Journal, Daily Free Press, Sound It Out, Hellbound, When It Was Cool, New Noise

SXSW 2018 REVIEWS

Rolling Stone – "SXSW 2018: 25 Best Country, Americana Shows We Saw"

Vinyl, Me Please – "The Best Shows We Saw At SXSW Music 2018"

Pollstar – "Caroline Rose’s SXSW Diary"

New York Times Fashion Portrait

Do512 Lounge Session – "Bikini"

Austin American-Statesman – "SXSW 2018: So many great moments! Here are a few favorites"

Austin360 – "Caroline Rose rises at SXSW, points feminist anthem at emo fans"

Minneapolis Star-Tribune – "Our critic's favorite acts from Austin's South by Southwest music fest"

Tour Dates

CONTACTS

Management: Project Daybreak

Edward O'Day – eoday@projectdaybreak.com
Brad Talley – btalley@projectdaybreak.com

Press: Pitch Perfect

Jessica Linker – jessica@pitchperfectpr.com

Radio: New West Records

Joel Habbeshaw – joel@newwestrecords.com

Booking: High Road Touring

Frank Riley – frank@highroadtouring.com