Noise Pop Festival 2018 Presents: Carla Dal Forno

8PM

21+

CARLA DAL FORNO specialises in obliquely confessional dispatches from the edge zones of

feeling. Her new EP ‘The Garden’ marks both a refinement of the dub - damaged, inward - looking

bedsit pop essayed on her 2016 debut album You Know What It’s Like, and an e

volutionary leap. More than anything, it represents the full flowering of an effortlessly brilliant and uniquely resourceful songwriter, singer and producer - one with the uncanny gift of creating music which feels immediately as though you’ve known it, or it’s known you, all your life. While there is

warmth and intimacy to come, The Garden opens with a cold hard stare: ’We Shouldn’t Have To

Wait’, an unexpectedly confrontational companion piece, or response, to her own first single and

calling card, ‘Fast Moving Cars’. This is not a dazed reverie, but forceful, fatalistic, void - chasing drone - rock led by a stalking, venus - in - furs bassline that levels everything in its path. No longer

gazing from afar at fast moving cars, but behind the wheel of one, driving

pretty recklessly. No particular destination in mind, but impatient to get there. New EP The Garden (out Oct 6th on Blackest Ever Black) is a compact masterpiece from a remarkable artist who - frighteningly, excitingly - has only just begun to hit her stride. https://blackesteverblack.bandcamp.com/album/you-know-what-its-like