Leírás
Alternative, Indie, Folk, Rock, Indie Twang, Slowcore, CD kiadvány, 2026-os album.
The solo project of Mark Scott. Sometimes other people help. Nothing’s as scary or sweet in this world than opening yourself up to a genuine connection with another person. Carousel, the fifth album Mark Scott has released as villagerrr, spills over with these wholehearted leaps of faith. His big, midwestern songs smolder with a desire to find enduring meaning in an era rife with commodification, surveillance, and general instability. The boldest and most delicate album to date from the Ohio songwriter, Carousel is a tender and sweeping exploration of what it means to try to make sincere art in a hyperexposed and constricting age.
With villagerrr’s label debut Tear Your Heart Out, Scott started folding friends and collaborators, like Merce Lemon and feeble little horse’s Lydia Slocum, into his creative process. That album marked a shift in the way his music started to reach people. For years, he had recorded at home and put out his songs shortly after he’d completed them: writing, recording, and sharing his work with a select but devoted audience all felt like they were part of a single, continuous cycle. Tear Your Heart Out, which saw a deluxe rerelease in 2025, attracted widening circles of listeners.
The album also compiles some of the most emotionally direct songs Scott has written. Looking out across the American political landscape of the past several years, he started penning lyrics about the toll of watching horrors unfold throughout his home country–horrors often inflicted primarily to be watched on television or social media. „I started being a little more direct about how futile things can feel sometimes,” he says. „Making music is one of the only things I feel like I might be good at, and I was hoping to say something in a song that might make some kind of difference.”
In a cultural moment where the pressure is higher than ever to market yourself for mass consumption, and to consume rather than connect, it means something to forge close bonds with the people around you–to share your life and your art one to one. Carousel harbors a lot of healthy skepticism about the world we’re in now, but it also holds up proof that just laying down your guard and reaching out to other people can spark creatively bountiful relationships — and set the foundation for a life that’s deeply, meaningfully livable.
„For the longest time, I had this fear of not being in control artistically. I’m slowly coming to realize that trying to control everything can actually be pretty limiting,” says Scott. „Things can go in so many directions if you just open yourself up. I think this album is proof of that.”
YouTube video:
„Carousel”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG58dTEUD3g
VILLAGERRR: https://www.youtube.com/@villagerrrrrrrr/videos
Felvételek:
1. Full Nelson
2. Gleam
3. Carousel 03:48
4. Virginia
5. Crystal Ball
6. Locket 04:14
7. Indiana
8. Roadstar
9. Swimming 04:21
10. What Does It Mean?
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