This Friday, Berlin-based four-piece, Carolina Lee, will release their latest single from forthcoming album, It’s Still Now, which is set for release on December 20 via Marzipan Records and follows the band’s 2021 debut LP, Haunted Houses.
Ahead of Friday’s release, exclusive to Sun 13, be the first to watch/listen to If I Try below.
Led by singer, Nadja Carolina, If I Try is a song for lazy Sunday mornings. Dream pop echoes with a dose of psychedelia and Jefferson Airplane worship, it sees Carolina Lee merging the past with the present.
The video for If I Try was directed and filmed by Nadja Carolina herself.
Speaking of If I Try, Nadja comments:
“If I Try’ feels particularly personal. I wrote the song having my female family members in mind asking myself the question of how much we can see and understand about the ones near to us. The work of caring for the family that connects the four generations mentioned in the song brings us close and keeps us at a distance at the same time. My grandmother used to play the mandolin all by herself in a room where no one could hear her. I can hope that her quiet playing is not only speaking of the feeling of being silenced when I get to play this song about care. And I call upon myself to hear and understand the sighs of mothers and grandmothers and my own sighs as something that is not yet but might become language. At least that is my attempt in If I Try. To share my thoughts while playing them out on the open feels like a stepping forward into a more open future that I wish my daughters will feel enabled to fill in their own way.
“The circular movements of the camera describe a specific perception of time. The sphere of the family, of reproductive work, of memory escapes the progressive, linear movement that often defines our lives. The video was made with the films of Belgian director Chantal Akerman in mind, whose unyielding and feminist stance has shaped my understanding of film as a director. The video was shot in the same place where the album ‘It’s Still Now’ was recorded. The house in the countryside was a nexus of family, work and music that now no longer exists in our physical reality but will linger on in our memory, continuing the overlapping of spaces and times that shape our daily life in the present.”
It’s Still Now is available on December 20 via Marzipan Records. Pre-order from Bandcamp.
