Caroline Rose

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a live performance and signing from Caroline Rose. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall' released via Suck Records.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show.

Limited edition patches available at all in-stores, first come first serve.

More product information can be found HERE >> https://shop.roughtrade.com/products/gentling-the-horse-at-the-walt-whitman-mall


Spilled leftovers in the back of a taxi. A rolled-up joint in the parking lot of a box-store strip mall. A drive-thru at midnight. LA based artist, Caroline Rose (she/they) has always found the surreal embedded within the banal, and Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall pushes that instinct to its furthest edge. The record constructs a hyperreal Americana fantasy where everyday life is asked to reveal its underbelly. The release on October 23, 2026, doubles as the debut of SUCK records, Rose’s own imprint—a fitting next form for an enigmatic artist whose work resists settling into one shape.

Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall stretches the ordinary into the uncanny. The record pairs sharply observed, memoiristic songwriting with expansive guitar textures that render the everyday with violent clarity and mythic scale. Beneath its melodic sweep and signature hooks runs a current of violence and American dream leakage.

“Alien decisions from a swamp-like past…now I'm just a subway rat running from the lab…I reject this perfect structure… I burn down this home…I don’t want to be composed, I want to decompose!”

– “Valery (please don’t be mad at me)”

The record dips into caricature to tell an exquisite corpse of stories through Rose’s idiosyncratic aesthetic fantasies. Songs like “Chow Mein” and “Cement Head” lurch between menace and slapstick.

“I got a head full of steel barbed wire…I got lungs, two Ziploc bags… I got a drill inside me… my blood oozes Texas tea.”

– “Cement Head”

Accessibility:

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