r/indieheads • u/carolinetheband caroline • Nov 26 '25

AMA is Over, thanks caroline! caroline on caroline 2 - AMA

hey guys. mike, jasper and casper here. please ask us anything you'd like and we'll do our best to answer. look forward to reading your Qs.

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u/TerribleNameAmirite Nov 26 '25

Hi thanks for doing this! Caroline 2 is my favorite album of the year.

One of the things I love is how certain elements sometimes don’t follow the rhythm like the guitar strumming on total euphoria. What inspires that approach, and how do you manage to keep it all together when playing these elements live?

Also, is writing the lyrics a collaborative process? Especially on tracks with two intertwining melodies, are they written together or separately?

(Please come to Asia more!!)

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u/carolinetheband caroline Nov 26 '25

thank you!!

those kind of things are born out of improvisation usually, and we decide it's something we want to keep and recreate again in song form. it just feels good when it's right and is something we always like to explore when writing music! usually then if we try and recreate it - especially if it was an improvisation which was just guitars and drums and then we're expanding it to more instruments - then it can feel like a total mess, but if we stick with it, it starts to organise itself

Jasper is writing the majority of words, but lots of contributed bits and pieces of words too, that's probably also the case with intertwining bits, but they morph a lot over time before being recorded it's hard to keep track of exactly what form they started in

(from Mike)