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IDK YOU
The new single + video from
CAROLINE & CLAUDE
+ Announce debut
Australian headline performances
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Photo credit: Andrew Fawcett
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“This duo encapsulates pure, impossible-to-not-smile-about giddiness.” – SLUMBER MAGAZINE
“…very catchy and charming..” – BROOKLYN VEGAN
“..sibling effervescence and originality..” – ATWOOD MAGAZINE
“..an exciting start from a duo with so much ahead of them.” – PILERATS
“There’s loads of digital texture… it’s like an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants.” – JACK SAUNDERS, BBC RADIO 1
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Fresh from their debut UK performance to a packed room at Colours Hoxton last month, Caroline & Claude return with the disarming and charming IDK YOU, alongside the track’s official video. The vintage-sounding pop song is the latest testament to the duo’s intriguing evolution. To celebrate, the duo has announced their debut Australian headline shows at The Lord Gladstone in Sydney on June 29, and Yah Yah’s in Melbourne on July 15.
Mixed by Grammy-Award winner Neal Pogue (N.E.R.D., Stevie Wonder, Janelle Monae), IDK YOU is brimming with their perfect harmonies and baroque songcraft. “We wrote IDK YOU at the start of the year. Claude produced the song and we both wrote and sang on it! We love the unpredictable nature of the song; bossa nova to drum and bass to a hyper pop influenced section. The song is essentially about unwanted conversation and flirtatious behaviour from someone; whether at a party, at a bar or anywhere… Why are you insisting on getting my number when IDK YOU!?” says Caroline of the track.
Of the sassy and droll visual accompaniment, the latest in their self-directed series, Claude explains, “The IDK YOU film clip was a very exciting thing to do. I had this initial theory that I wanted to execute. Our first single was a take on bossa nova, and primarily consisted of animations, and our second single was drum & bass, consisting of a home video feel filmed on a camcorder. Considering this third single was a bossa nova X drum & bass song, I wanted to include animations, whilst embracing the camcorder vibes of it’s not that a bad… It’s the child of our first two singles aha!! With the help of our lovely friend Annika Windsor, we created the IDK YOU clip, filmed in locations across Sydney, and at our dear friend Andrew Fawcett’s d0p3 studio!”
IDK YOU follows on from the Sydney based siblings ruthlessly catchy second single it’s not that bad, and their acid-tongued debut Stir The Pot. Since their inception, support and critical acclaim has followed, with full additions to triple j, over 400 spins on US College radio, airplay on BBC1 Radio, and coverage in global titles such as Atwood Magazine, Brooklyn Vegan, Slumber Magazine and more. Most recently, they took to the stage in Sydney for their very first live performance as special guests for Nyxen.
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CAROLINE & CLAUDE
Tour Dates
Tickets on sale now
Wednesday 29 June | The Lord Gladstone, Sydney NSW
Free show – register here
Friday 15 July | Yah Yah’s, Melbourne VIC
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New single IDK YOU – out now
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About Caroline & Claude
Caroline & Claude – were, in a sense, born into music. Performance was part of their lives from a young age, whether in the form of the jam sessions they’d have with their extended family, or putting on shows for their parents, Wayne and Jules. But their musical lineage goes even further than that: Caroline & Claude’s grandparents are singers, and used to sing in jazz cafes in their native India. In other words, the fruit that comes to bear in Caroline and Claude’s music grows from a perfect push-pull between nature and nurture: the result of innate musical genes given space to grow and create with impunity.
In mid-2020, forced into pandemic-induced isolation together, Caroline & Claude started to make music, and soon realised they’d stumbled upon something special. To properly understand their music, it’s important to rid your mind of comparisons with other sibling duos. In truth, Caroline & Claude are diametric opposites, the former a classic extrovert and the latter a total introvert. Where Caroline spends her days chasing the kind of emotional connection and social interaction that fuels her art -which, aside from songwriting, also encompasses poetry – Claude is a quintessential studio rat, content to spend his time finessing and perfecting his production techniques. The result is a harmony that’s unique and entirely theirs, and not unlike the one conjured when they sing together. It’s Caroline & Claude’s own kind of magic: introvert wit and extrovert emotionality intertwining to create witty, bombastic tales for a new generation of pop fans.
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