Take Time (Vinyl LP)

Carb on Carb, made up of Nicole Gaffney (vocals, guitar) and James Stuteley (drums), are an emo/indie punk band from the midwest of New Zealand's North Island. Known for touring restlessly pre-covid, the band took time over the enforced break to pursue other projects (Nicole - To The Front fka Girls Rock! programmes, James - writing and recording music in Te Reo Māori under How Get), and to write their third album Take Time.

Take Time is the band's third full length and as the title suggests, ruminates on time; it looks backwards before looking forward, to triangulate the right place to be in the present. Recorded at what the band believe is one of the country’s most underrated all ages music institutions, The Stomach, it was mixed by Chris Teti of The World is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die. Grounded was the first single from the album and was released last year. Stereogum called it "as sweetly melodious and melancholic as you could want from Carb On Carb, a plaintive pop song with a skip in its step and guitar action to spare.”

Tracklist 

1. 2009
2. Back where you’re from
3. Home Again 7
4. Grounded
5. Ok Bye
6. Motuihe
7. Overcommunicate  
8. Thirtysomethings
9. Let Go
10. I Know The End 2