November 2011
1 post
Spotify
You can now stream both Oh, Light and Nightcat from Spotify.
October 2011
3 posts
Piero Scaruffi reviews Careful →
The prolific Piero Scaruffi has taken the time to write up ‘Oh, Light’:
The whispered vocals are only half of the show, though. The arrangements may be unassuming, but they play a big role in altering what would otherwise be a straightforward meaning.
Scaruffi’s story is quite interesting. Take a gander.
Careful @ CMJ →
Careful will be playing a showcase for CMJ:
The Living Room
154 Ludlow St.
October 18th, 8:30 - 9:00P
with The Chapin Sisters
September 2011
2 posts
August 2011
1 post
An Interview With Careful →
July 2011
1 post
Careful @ Rooftop Film Series →
Careful plays at Chashama in Long Island City for the Rooftop Film Series.
Careful
Chashama
25-25 44th Drive
7/21/11 8:30PM
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
1 post
Careful Upcoming Apperances →
Thursday, April 7, 7pm: Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum Lounge
Yelena Zhelezov, Chi-Wang Yang and I will be performing “The Live-Long Day”, a cross between multimedia theater performance and fine art installation. Yelena is an exciting, playful artist and puppetrix who has a talent for creating wonderfully oblique metaphorical instantiations of ideas that manage to be both whimsical...
March 2011
1 post
Careful Chosen as a NYC Artist on the Rise at Deli... →
His tunes, tied together by a soft, whispered approach and by attention to texture, mix more or less traditional songwriting with sparse and dreamy electronic effects, often slightly dissonant, but always tastefully realized.
February 2011
2 posts
The Language of Distance & The Indie Machine
Benjamin from the Jackson Hole Weekly re-posted a slightly different write up of his review of ‘Oh, Light’ on his blog.
The Toronto based gang at The Indie Machine have been playing Careful and have also taken the time to give the record a proper shout out.
The Language of Distance →
Benjamin from the Jackson Hole Weekly re-posted a slightly different write up of his review of ‘Oh, Light’ on his blog.
January 2011
2 posts
'Oh, Light' Reviewed at the Jackson Hole Weekly →
Lindley’s arrangements are delicately spare and he imbues every line he sings with a sincere gravitas that could be endearing to one listener and overly ingratiating to another.
Oh, Light reviewed on Dusted →
The reviews are still trickling in:
Careful’s second album, Oh, Light, could hardly be more intimate. And yet there’s a fantastic oddity in these folk-centered, jazz-infused, songs, the best sort of self-recorded eccentricity. These are skeletal songs, yet twisted subtly into fantastical, gothic shapes.
[…]
Even so, these songs are fundamentally human. They are vulnerable,...
October 2010
1 post
Dartmouth Alumni Magazine →
Sounds Super and Careful both received a mention in the recent Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.
September 2010
2 posts
A Sandwich →
Eric shares a sandwich with Sean Patrick Kelly and discusses the album.
Stranger in the Room - NY Press →
Eric shares a sandwich with Sean Patrick Kelly and discusses the album at length.
August 2010
1 post
Guerrilla Geek on Careful →
There is simplicity, there is beauty, and it pays not to think anything more past that.
Read more at Guerrilla Geek.
July 2010
4 posts
More Reviews
‘Oh, Light’ has been getting some more reviews:
Slant Magazine
Adequacy
Jambands
We’re An American Blog
FAME
'Oh, Light" officially out!
So you can now officially order the physical copy of the CD straight from our site. You get the immediate gratification of the download and the tactile awesomeness of a real record in short order!
Future Shipwreck Giveaway →
Our friends at Future Shipwreck are running a give away, check it out. Edit: Congrats to Ben Prisbylla!
Apparently...
a paper you might be familiar with picked the new Careful record as a critics’ choice. We’re off to hang out with Kylie.
June 2010
3 posts
pre-order now available for oh, light
You can now pre-order the new album right here!
reviews & radio
So the new record is coming out in less than a month (keep your eyes peeled for a pre-order link shortly) and the reviews are starting to trickle in:
The Bay Area Reporter
Ink19
Jersey Beat
The Big Takeover
We’re also starting to get some love from college radio stations like: SCAD, WVKR & WUSC
April 2010
6 posts
Careful on WBAR
The DJ’s at Surfin’ with the Shahhhh worked ‘Scrappy’ into the set list not too long ago. You can download an MP3 of the show here.
In a little over a week...
The new free digital EP comes out. Keep watching here! See you on Sunday at Cake Shop
New Careful MP3 at carefulmusic.com
There’s a new recording posted at the Careful site. Also, info on Eric’s work in a month-long gallery show in LA, and a new issue of his lit-mag.
March 2010
1 post
Cake Shop Sunday April 25th
Eric will be playing a show at Cake Shop on the LES. He will be opening for Cars & Trains and Girls In Trouble. The show starts 8PM so come early and have a cup cake with us. $6 at the door.
February 2010
1 post
Show this Sunday 3/7
Eric is playing this Sunday, March 7 at Cameo Gallery in NYC w/Dearling Physique, Eric Hassle, Data Dog
January 2010
3 posts
lots of exciting news on the way. the new records has just been mastered and we will be releasing a digital ep shortly. also non-new york tour dates shortly!
show tonight 1/23/10 at uncle mike's
eric is playing a show tonight saturday 1/23/10 at uncle mike’s in tribeca.
57 Murray St (Murray St. btw Church St. and West Broadway)
Chambers Street Stop on A, C, E, 1, 2, 3
$10 cover at the door or $8.25 in advance
click here for tickets!
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