More Than A Goodbye

by Carol

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1.	Other Room 03:46	lyrics
You cry but don't know why Walk the memory slow I do not know an answer Feel reflections Replace the question that I see How have the others loved you? I only know how I love you Crying from the other room I hear crying From the other room The cycle becomes the exchange As the dove flies to my waist When two become one The third I hear it sing As the two choose to begin How have the others loved you? I only know how I love you Crying from the other room I hear crying From the other room
2.	Nancy's Roses Yellow 03:51	lyrics
Soothe like the syrup dripping Season makes its show I'll take the time it takes to understand you Understand you, understand you slow Yellow, like Nancy's roses Like all the sweet silks sewn into the stalks Yellow, as summer's dying A golden light like I've never seen before Who could fight a war with a thin veil like this? Catching, helping, healing Holding calms your mind Sighs and cries and laughter You'll listen for nothing for nothing For nothing at all Yellow, like Nancy's roses Like all the sweet silks sewn into the stalks Yellow, moving a blue sky With flocks of birds and the fables known for free Tell me all you see through a thin veil like this I've watched you before I knew I was looking Love's taught me that children laugh for nothing For nothing at all
3.	Cartwheel 03:46
4.	Benny 03:41
5.	No Need 03:18
6.	Your Eyes Say 03:55	lyrics
Secrets shelter the fear from unfolding It's hard to say what I'd do Blanket of snow on my spirit burning The warmth of trusting you I know in my heart You're as old as your eyes say I'll tell you everything I'll tell you everything When the morning turns to the cold of the creek And the water wades in my eyes As the season dies My trust is learning A gentle sweet surprise I see in your soul You're as old as your eyes say I'll tell you everything I'll tell you everything I'll tell you Please tell me I'll love you With everything
7.	More Than A Goodbye 03:38
8.	Anne 03:57
9.	Clear As This 04:05

about

More Than a Goodbye, the debut album from New York-based artist Carol, started the day that a lot of things ended. On March 13th, 2020, Carolyn Flaherty and her band at the time––Ruben Radlauer (drums), Emma Stacher (bass), and Jack Wetmore (guitar)––were driving from New York City to Boston for a show that proved to be their last before the entire world shut down.

“We had a really long, weird drive to Massachusetts. It was foggy and there were State of Emergency signs all over the highway,” Carol remembered. “We listened to music in the car the whole time and didn’t say anything. I had never felt that intense and ominous feeling before, but I also was like, ‘It’s gonna be okay. We are together, and that is how it probably was always meant to be.’”

In the summer of 2020, Carol and the band all met up again for the first time since saying goodbye in March to work in upstate New York. For two weeks, the four of them lived together as a single force. Waking up together, swimming in the lake together, rolling down hills, eating, spinning, laughing, the four found a pronounced focus on the true meaning of “play” and discovered the starting point to More Than a Goodbye. But this convergence, a blip only made possible by a world on pause, was as fleeting as it was magical. A sad truth, perhaps, but a beautiful one nonetheless.

On More Than A Goodbye, Carol is acutely aware of these everyday yet metamorphic contradictions––to love is to surrender; to trust is to bare your wounds––and explores the space between these equal and opposite forces. Every track displays Carol’s masterful ability to mine ordinary happenings for quiet, stirring breakthroughs. These moments––a woman crying from a next door window, the creek turning cold, feet hitting the ground at the end of the cartwheel––render the language between light and dark in her music, an emotional balancing act that never gives way to either end.

“The songs on this album are about the most simple dualities and the most simple ceremonies that we can see all the time,” Carol reflected. “I’m not only thinking about the languages that exist between people, but also the language between worlds, between us and nature, and how as much as language can help us communicate, it can also prohibit us from learning things in so many ways.”

Above all else, the album delicately but assuredly states the fact light and dark will always be constants in our lives. Friendships form, love blooms, bonds break, things die; all the time and all at once. That fact might be overwhelming or scary, but that doesn’t mean they are devoid of love and joy (or vice versa). It’s up to us to see these bonds and contradictions for what they are, and to be brave enough to embrace them all. - Rob Steiner

credits

released February 24, 2023

Music and Lyrics by Carolyn Flaherty
All songs performed by Carolyn Flaherty, Ruben Radlauer, Jack Wetmore, Emma Stacher
String arrangements and performance by Rob Moose (2/9), Sean Brennan (7), and Lily Desmond (7)
Produced by Carolyn Flaherty, Ruben Radlauer, Jack Wetmore
Engineered by Hayden Ticehurst
Recorded and Mixed by Chris Cubeta at Studio G in Brooklyn, NY.
Mastered by Colin Bryson at Alex DeTurk Mastering in Brooklyn, NY.

Photography by Maria Gelsomini
Layout by Victoria Romulo

Physical logo/typography by Enne Goldstein
Physical layout by Dustin J.S. Watson

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