{"product_id":"rose-caroline-gentling-the-horse-at-the-walt-whitman-mall-black-vinyl","title":"Rose, Caroline - Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall (Black Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCaroline Rose - Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall (Black Vinyl)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable to pre-order now, released October 23rd. As this is an import we may have stock a week later.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note : If you pre-order an item and add more items in stock, we will ship the order together when the pre-order arrives. Release dates are subject to change, we don't send out emails, any changes are updated on the website.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Fishtailing across a trimmed sod lawn, the parking lot of a box-store strip mall, a fast food drive-thru––it’s a hyperreal Americana fantasy that calls Caroline Rose (she\/they) home on 'Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall'. The release doubles as the debut of SUCK records, the LA based artist’s own imprint—a fitting next form for an enigmatic musician whose work resists settling into one shape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall' stretches the ordinary into the uncanny. The record pairs sharply observed, memoiristic songwriting with expansive guitar textures that render the everyday with violent clarity and mythic scale. Beneath its melodic sweep and signature hooks runs a current of violence and American dream leakage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s Ennio Morricone with an AR15: surf guitars, spaghetti westerns, and suburban dread colliding until they become their own sharp vernacular. Reality is unstable, so we’ll keep telling stories—and for Rose, the sinister slickness of the everyday grows a new head.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorking with producer John Congleton, Rose built the record through humor, layering, and instinct rather than polish. Songs like “Conversations with Shiv,” “Goddamn Train,” and “Everything in its Right Place” were recorded in studio for the first time, with sessions that prized first impulses over perfection. The result is panoramic but never precious—songs that feel meticulously constructed while always threatening to mutate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the last six years, Rose’s music has evolved alongside their work organizing around stronger labor protections and collective bargaining rights for musicians and crews. Creative and political practice have increasingly become the same project as Rose’s career has taken on its hyper-independent form. Those concerns echo throughout 'Gentling the Horse'. Its landscapes are populated by inherited systems that feel absurd yet inescapable, where humor becomes a survival tactic and satire reveals the quiet violence embedded in everyday American life.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYip Yip Yow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChow Mein\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eValery (Please Don't Be Mad At Me)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCement Head\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGoddamn Train\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes to Teenage Self\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConversation with Shiv (AKA liquid k song)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHello Again, Jim\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCalm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRIDE (!!!)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEverything in its Right Place\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Caroline Rose","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50165081112824,"sku":null,"price":58.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0275\/7403\/files\/carolinerosegentlingthehorsestdblack.jpg?v=1786758651","url":"https:\/\/happyvalleyshop.com\/products\/rose-caroline-gentling-the-horse-at-the-walt-whitman-mall-black-vinyl","provider":"Happy Valley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}