{"id":27333,"date":"2025-10-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/?p=27333"},"modified":"2025-10-09T12:29:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:29:23","slug":"new-music-revue-the-carolyn-get-perfectly-concise-on-third-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2025\/10\/15\/new-music-revue-the-carolyn-get-perfectly-concise-on-third-album\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: The Carolyn get perfectly concise on third album"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Carolyn
\nPyramid Scheme of Grief
\n<\/i>(59 X Records\/Disconnect Disconnect Records)
\n4\/5<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what Atlanta-based three-piece The Carolyn know what matters: punk songs don\u2019t need to be over two and a half minutes long. As it turns out, no songs on their third LP, Pyramid Scheme of Grief<\/i>, go beyond that length, and absolutely nothing suffers for it. And like peers in bands like The Lawrence Arms, Joyce Manor, or Gaslight Anthem, The Carolyn manages to pack a lot of feels into a sonic space often wrongfully dismissed as being emotionally stunted.<\/p>\n

Sure, it feels like tracks such as the excellent \u201cWhite Russians\u201d (melancholy through the bravado) and \u201cAnd the Infinite Void\u201d (driving, moving, finalizing) end a bit prematurely, but didn\u2019t every single song on Hot Water Music\u2019s A Flight and a Crash<\/i> also end prematurely? (Come on, no way it\u2019s just me who thought that.) And that right there is one of the best melodic punk albums of the past 25 years, so maybe sometimes it\u2019s all about doing what needs to be done and making a quick exit while it\u2019s still good enough to hurt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNosebleeds\u201d is The Menzingers without the hysteria, or Banner Pilot with the hysteria; it\u2019s powerful, it\u2019s full steam ahead, and then it ends, almost right when it\u2019s getting started. \u201cI Thought You Were Dead\u201d came and went before I made any notes about it, but I loved it, and \u201cKatie Arson\u201d has an enveloping sadness through the crashing and bashing and distortion, which is often the best sadness. \u201cRoutines\u201d almost falls apart at the seams, which is what the best music does.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how long this record is, and I\u2019m not looking because it doesn\u2019t matter\u2014ultimately, the heft is in every kick of the bass drum, in every strained vocal, in every guitar string hit just a bit too hard.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s joy in sadness and small victories in defeat and a wisdom in knowing that the more it hurts the better it was. Sometimes a two-minute punk song can sum all that up better than anything else. Nothing else should matter if that\u2019s what I think I know, and that\u2019s what The Carolyn know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Carolyn Pyramid Scheme of Grief (59 X Records\/Disconnect Disconnect Records) 4\/5 Here\u2019s what Atlanta-based three-piece The Carolyn know what matters: punk songs don\u2019t need to be over two and a half minutes long. As it turns out, no songs on their third LP, Pyramid Scheme of Grief, go beyond that length, and absolutely nothing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-october-15-2025"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t