{"product_id":"rose-caroline-gentling-the-horse-at-the-walt-whitman-mall","title":"Rose, Caroline - Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall","description":"Fishtailing across a trimmed sod lawn, the parking lot of a box-store strip mall, a fast food drive-thru––it’s a hyperreal Americana fantasy that calls Caroline Rose (she\/they) home on '\u003ci\u003eGentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall\u003c\/i\u003e' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003ci\u003eGentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall\u003c\/i\u003e 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. It’s Ennio Morricone with an AR15: surf guitars, spaghetti westerns, and suburban dread colliding until they become their own sharp vernacular. Reality is unstable, so we’ll keep telling stories—and for Rose, the sinister slickness of the everyday grows a new head. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nWorking with producer John Congleton, Rose built the record through humor, layering, and instinct rather than polish. The result is panoramic but never precious—songs that feel meticulously constructed while always threatening to mutate. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nOver the last six years, Rose’s music has evolved alongside their work organizing around stronger labor protections and collective bargaining rights for musicians and crews. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nCreative and political practice have increasingly become the same project as Rose’s career has taken on its hyper-independent form. Those concerns echo throughout 'Gentling the Horse'. Its landscapes are populated by inherited systems that feel absurd yet inescapable, where humor becomes a survival tactic and satire reveals the quiet violence embedded in everyday American life.","brand":"Suck Records","offers":[{"title":"Potato Chip Yellow LP + Obi Strip","offer_id":51702739730710,"sku":"RMX-72757","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP + Obi Strip","offer_id":51702739763478,"sku":"RMX-72758","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":51702739861782,"sku":"RMX-72759","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cassette","offer_id":51702739894550,"sku":"RMX-72760","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/6a7ae9c84d3cb519f9d3b66e_deccf8f2-81c5-4d6e-b3d0-e48f364e50eb.jpg?v=1786454572","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/rose-caroline-gentling-the-horse-at-the-walt-whitman-mall","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}