Irish singer Rosie Carney has taking another look at her single Sixteen. This "night tapes" version is more dreamy, but the existential dread of the original is still there, albeit covered up in layers of echo and reverb. It is part of her doomsday night tapes project, a reworking of her Doomsday... Don't Leave Me Here album, on which she goes for a more intimate, stripped down mode.
Irish singer Rosie Carney looks back at the dark side of her youth on her new single Sixteen, when she went through a period of existential dread that came back to haunt her in the present. Anxiety and the fear that she might be dying were turned into an alternative pop song about self-reliance against all odds. Co-written by her producer Ross MacDonald (The 1975) it became the centrepiece for her forthcoming new album Doomsday... Don't Leave Me Here, on which she faces her demons, before spitting them in the eyes.
Irish singer Rosie Carney peddles the kind of mainstream dreampop that will appeal to both casual and serious listeners. Her new single Fragile Fantasy is a throwback to her schooldays when she seriously thought that she was a unicorn. Her teacher played along, claiming that she also was one. Being OK with a kid's imagination has sustained her since then, with a fantasy world of her own invention as a safe space from the harsh realities of life.
Irish singer Rosie Carney plays mellow, almost ambient, folk on her debut full-length Bare. The soft-spoken music purrs quietly underneath her crystal clear vocals. Inspired by her immediate surroundings she paints the musical equivalents of water colours.
Every note counts and this less is more approach demands undivided attention. She discusses isolation and lovers lost in concise poetry that belies her age. Carney is only 21, but she has been writing songs since she was 13. Her quiet, bittersweet intensity is compelling and endearing as well. No Hollywood endings, but as a listener you hope she comes out on top.
