Carl Schilde - Europop
Release date: Friday, February 4th 2022
Initially sparked by a disappointing experience in Los Angeles, EUROPOP is Carl Schilde’s debut solo album. Despite what the title suggests, it’s spiritually closer to a Laurel Canyon pool party than a Stockholm nightclub.
In fact, it was recorded somewhere in between. While holed up in his Toronto basement, Carl’s lifelong obsession with outdated pop trickery launched him into an alternate sonic universe— one where The Beach Boys’ late-70s albums were big hits, and long-forgotten Italian soft rock is the style du jour. The results are ten songs about feeling out of place and out of time in the music world. Beneath the record’s dream-like pace, the preset sounds of yesteryear ripple through like relics of hit-making technology.
