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01. Pink Shabab - Kiosk Instrumental
02. Pink Shabab - Run Away
03. Pink Shabab - Show Your Love
04. Pink Shabab - Let Go
05. Pink Shabab - You Stepped Out Of My Life
06. Pink Shabab - San Junipero
07. Pink Shabab - Second Time
08. Pink Shabab - Why Did I Leave You That Morning
09. Pink Shabab - All The Way
ARTIST
TITLE
Never Stopped Loving You
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
KK 123LP KK 123LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/1/2022

Joseph Carvell returns to Karaoke Kalk with his sophomore album under the Pink Shabab moniker. Never Stopped Loving You was for the most part written between Spring and late Summer 2020 in his Camberwell home and like his 2019 debut Ema By The Sea (KK 115CD/LP) recorded in the South of France together with Emmanuel Mario, better known as Astrobal. It's a record informed by feelings of nostalgia, love, longing, romance and loss and, much like his previous album, displays Carvell's knack for making introversion sound extroverted. As a bassist, his approach to songwriting is both rhythmic and melodic, making the resulting music just as visceral as it is emotive. Managing to play only one show in Zurich in early 2020, he had to cancel his planned European tour and go back to the United Kingdom, which soon went into lockdown. He made the best out of the situation, recording electric and upright bass for Nick Krgovich, Daniel O'Sullivan and Zooey's new records while also working on tracks and demos by himself. Everything came together slowly before he boarded a train to France with his keyboard. Never Stopped Loving You is notably more electronic than its predecessor, but also full of the small melodic and harmonic details that made Ema By The Sea such an outstanding record. "I was listening to more 1990s dance and house music and 1980s pop and also a healthy amount of ambient music," explains Carvell. These influences are clearly audible on songs like the Chicago house-esque beats of "Show Your Love" or "Why Did I Leave You That Morning", the skittish rhythms on "Let Go" and the near-Balearic "San Junipero". Especially the latter makes it clear that Carvell spent much time devoting himself to movies and TV shows, but also incorporated more piano sounds in his song -- the learnt the instrument by playing along to classic Beatles and Beach Boys songs. Despite being more upbeat on a rhythmic level than before, Carvell's use of texture and his peculiar voice add another note to the music. Even an anthemic song like "Run Away", his first composition to follow a classic verse/chorus structure, is profoundly ambivalent, both overjoyed and deeply melancholic. By the same token however, even a torch song like "You Stepped Out of My Life" is enormously consoling. This, after all, has always been Carvell's strength: creating music that will cheer you up when you're down while also injecting a sense of futility into every moment of euphoria. Edition of 300.