LGBTQ+ Albums for you: Episode 3

We hope this mini-series has helped you discover some new music you love - and maybe it'll even make your Spotify Wrapped. It's our third and final week of our mini series of album recommendations, and last up: it's Caroline Kingsbury.

Happy listening!

Kian

I Really Don’t Care! (2024) - Caroline Kingsbury

Kingsbury’s latest EP kicks off with an invite to a party at Our House. Anthemic synth announces a utopia of acceptance in the chorus: “In our house, our house / Just you and me / They say we’re crazy / But baby, we’re free.” Community comes together in the outro to manifest: “Please let nothing happen to our house!”

Dissecting the turbulence of growing up outside of the heteronormative, Kingsbury compares her past with her present on Alabama: once “Watching the future / On a grainy TV on the floor / Of your parents’ living room” to “Now I’m sitting with my girl watching grainy TV on the floor of our living room.” Personal pronouns pronounce the fortuitous invisible string that ties the track with a synchronous satin bow, soon to be torn.

Heartbreak bleeds into pores of insecurity on the post-breakup title-track: “I’m gonna move out of the country / Think I wanna shave my head” which speaks to that guttural need to transform oneself after a relationship crumbles, and pretty much proves that Kingsbury really does care sometimes! In the aftermath of it all, Kingsbury reckons with Icarus on Fly Too Close: “Did I fly too close to your love?” And yeah, probably, but it happens to the best of us.

So, maybe Kingsbury does actually care too much, which is an epiphany that hits in the project's finishing touches, confessing: “I’m lying, I’m lying” on Take My Phone Away. Kingsbury is still in love, and might be for some time, despite her best efforts to find somebody new: “Somebody take my phone away! / I’m calling you a thousand times / I’m in the bathroom on another date.” The track ends and she goes back home to her house to start the party again, proclaiming that she really, truly, doesn’t care, but schemes to fly too close once again.

Standout tracks: Fly Too Close, Take My Phone Away

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