Carousel Waltz

Carousel Waltz finds Ryland Bouchard (The Robot Ate Me) responding to political insanity and personal tragedy with an album based on hope, love, and the importance of transforming sorrow into joy. While previous albums found Ryland's beautifully skewed pop songs occasionally obscured by intrepid experimentation and obtuse subject matter, Carousel Waltz is, on the contrary, disarmingly sweet, hopeful, and is quite possibly his most realized work to date. Carousel Waltz follows in the tradition of similar cracked masterpieces such as The Microphones' The Glow Pt 2 and The Flaming Lips's The Soft Bulletin, but retains a distinct and irresistible warmth that transcends comparison. In Carousel Waltz: Life is celebrated with trumpets! Love is lifted by clarinets!