EP117 - So What’s Been Happening? - Al Carr

EP117 - So What's Been Happening? - Al Carr

MELBOURNE, VIC alt-country and Australian Americana artist Al Carr is proud to release his third album The Right Dereliction. Al Carr started playing in Sydney bands in the late 90s before a move to Melbourne in 2006 led to the start of a solo career that began in 2013 with his self-titled EP (featured guest appearances from Davey Lane (You Am I) and Louis Macklin (Jet), followed by the albums Gutter Truth (2017) and Empty Skies (2021) which included pedal steel by Shane Reilly (Lost Ragas).

Now Carr backs up those releases with his strongest set of recordings to date – the exquisite, diverse and poetic album The Right Dereliction. Written at home after a move to regional Victoria, these ten songs gestated for several years before Carr reunited with his band and long time collaborator Simon Maiden (guitar, keys), taking them into Aviary Studios in 2022 where Clinton Kraus (Something For Kate, The Peep Tempel, Mike Noga) produced and mixed the record.

FOR FANS OF: Tom Petty, The Band, The Replacements, Dan Brodie, Nick Barker

"The EP, six tracks of alt-country rock possesses a real late-night barroom feel – it sounds clean but rustic at the same time... his voice sounds like the bastard child of Mick Jagger and the Go-Betweens Robert Forster." Garry Westmore, Beat Magazine.

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