Heavy Heavy

I knew Laura Carbone when she was writing on The Fucking Fuck, a blog that doesn’t exist anymore. Early 2000s internet, the kind of place that felt essential because it was the only space for this particular kind of thinking—scattered, urgent, unmediated. She moved past blogging like everyone eventually does.

I saw her again in Berlin around 2010 with her band Deine Jugend at Klub International. Music was becoming the thing, replacing the need to document everything. Five years after that she released a solo album called Sirens. It’s not straightforward indie pop—there’s melancholy running underneath it, a refusal to make things sound better than they feel. The new single Heavy Heavy distills that idea. Nothing showy, just something that needed to exist.

I’m still not sure why certain people stick with you across years and format changes. Laura’s one of them.