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Kalandra bring past and present into perfect harmony ...

Solstice guitarist’s son leads smart-jazz instrumental group along the prog path.

VARIOUS VENUES, CAMDEN

Bored Animal PSYCHONAUT

With 28 albums’ worth of songs to choose from, “hopefully there will be some surprises”.

From the noisy streets, community cafés and surprisingly verdant cemeteries of Southeast London have risen CAROLINE : a confoundingly brilliant eight-piece band with no obvious frontperson, fusing choral folk with fractured post-rock and experimental pop. As Sam Richards discovers, they haven’t made life easy for themselves. “But there has to be a vulnerability of some sort. Otherwise, what’s the point?”