German instrumental prog/stoner/post-rock collective Carpet return with new studio album »Collision«, out now via Kapitän Platte

Augsburg, Germany based instrumental prog/stoner/post-rock collective Carpet return with their new studio album, »Collision«, which just dropped on March 22nd, 2024 via Kapitän Platte.

Listen to »Collision« on all major streaming platforms!

Tracklist:
01. The Moonlight Rush
02. Dead Fingers
03. Ghosts
04. P Is For Parrot
05. Passage
06. Lost At Sea
07. Cosmic Shape Shifter

Carpet is a German band influenced by prog rock, psychedelic music, stoner rock and jazz.

The band about »Collision«: “In March 2019, shortly after the release of our last album »About Rooms and Elephants«, we started writing new songs in a small cabin up in the Italian alps. We managed to find ideas in a new collaborative way. We arranged the new songs back in our studio and worked on the lyrics. And then there was Covid and the world was upside down. During these months we tried to write songs in remote which had a completely different feeling. Having finished two thirds of the record we concentrated on playling live again, which felt liberating. In 2022 we collaborated with a string ensemble and had a fantastic show with them. After that we actually wrote some new songs, others got kicked out of the album, vocal lines got changed, guitar solos rerecorded, mixes were first completed and then started again from scratch. The next Carpet album was supposed to be perfect. And what should we say? It turned out to be fantastic.”

Photo by Manuel Nieberle

Order »Collision« here:
carpet.bandcamp.com/album/collision
kapitaenplatte.bandcamp.com/album/collision

Written and produced by Carpet.
Lyrics by Maximilian Stephan.
Recorded in Schlosswirtschaft Obergriesbach and Albert Matong Atelier für Musik, Augsburg.
Recorded and mixed by Maximilian Wörle.
Mastered by Dimi Conidas.

Carpet is:
Maximilian Stephan – Electric Guitars and Lead Vocals
Jakob Mader – Drums and Percussion
Sigmund Perner – Fender Rhodes, Roland Juno
Hubert Steiner – Bass
Martin Lehmann – Trumpet and Flugelhorn
Maximilian Wörle – Backing Vocals

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well