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New single by Washington, DC's The Caribbean from a yet-to-be-named full-length, due early 2019.

Like a lot of Caribbean songs, this one came about from walking around with an insistent melody in the brain (or part of one) and the ambition to do something permanent and useful with it. The rest is problem-solving.

In the studio, in the bottom drawer of a desk, sat a guitar riff just waiting for a song it might be asked to introduce. The drummer enters the song and plays through rather than with it - which confused and delighted the guitar player and singer when they were arranging it.

The Vitamin Ship is set to attack a world where cats sun-sleep in a giant atrium and only the most privileged or security-cleared are permitted to experience the rarified state of hypoxia.

The Caribbean is an American experimental pop group from Washington, D.C.The band has been critically acclaimed for its deconstructionist approach to pop music, its wry, literary lyrics, and its eclectic sound, which incorporates elements of American pop, indie rock, and experimental rock, cool jazz, folk music, lounge music, and even Brazilian music. The Caribbean has garnered positive press in The Washington Post, Washington City Paper, Magnet, Rolling Stone, PopMatters, Uncut, The Denver Post, Flak, Stylus, Tiny Mix Tapes, Harp Magazine, and Signal to Noise, and its 2011 album, Discontinued Perfume, was named Indie Pop Record of the Year by PopMatters.

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from Vitamin Ship b​/​w Vitamin Ship (MK Demo), released June 26, 2018
Recorded by Dallas Kentucky at National Crayon Museum
Mixed by Beau Sorenson in Oakland, CA
Mastered by Heba Kadry in Brooklyn, NY
Cover art by Mr. Joel Ebner in Chicago, IL

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The Caribbean Washington, D.C.

They’re taking Brill Building songs and writing them in invisible ink, turning jazz standards into Twilight Zone episodes, turning folk songs into clouds of fog.

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