Shot through with a deep sensuality, Carnation is a high-wire balancing act, at times sexual, emotionally intense and comforting. The album features Daughn’s strongest songwriting yet, with lyrical subject matter that shares a kinship with writers Raymond Carver and Donald Ray Pollack. The music here combines with those lyrics to widescreen effect, and Carnation feels filmic in its execution: It evokes, and in many ways pays homage to, the works of Tim Burton, Pier Paulo Pasolini, and John Waters. Upcoming features are scheduled with Rip It Up and Radio NZ National.
‘Shatter Though You’ is playlisted on radio Control and on an A rotate
on Radio One.
‘It Wants Everything’ is playlisted on bFM, Radio Active and on an A rotate
on Radio
One. ‘Shatter Though You’ video has featured on Rip It Ups ‘What We’re
Watching’ video in
blog series.