CloseUp // Track Of The Month #005 // Carpark - 'The World Ended In 2012'

Summer is coming, as are festivals and maybe the best time in the music calendar. This month’s illustrious CloseUp TOTM comes from Carpark, who play CloseUp Festival & more in 2022.

A new incarnation, Carpark are one of the capital's most tipped upcoming outfits. Their recent EP title & focus single has been on repeat at CloseUp HQ, ‘The World Ended In 2012’ brings all the angst and guitar tones of American emo of the past, whilst nodding to more recent and perhaps gaining all too easy comparisons to genre-leaders Pale Waves, or MUNA. The entire EP is a refreshing take on indie/emo, with huge choruses amalgamated within trademark lyricism. Well worth a listen, we suggest checking it out on Spotify and catching a live show.

Speaking about the EP, Carpark explained: ‘This EP is the first little piece of us we want to put out into the world. After playing our first show out of a friend's garage in Belfast 6 months ago you've helped us sell out our 1st headline show and been the best humans we could have wished for. The World Ended in 2012 was actually the first song we started recording with our producer, and is now finally yours’.

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