Music | Explore The Atmospheric Sounds of Lo Carmen

Pink vinyl record with an album cover featuring a black and white portrait of a woman's face with shadow patterns across it, titled 'Lo Carmen & The Great Beyond - Transatlantic Light'.

Impressed Recordings exclusive limited edition run of 200 on clear pink vinyl, featuring liner notes by Will Hermes (author of ‘Lou Reed: King Of New York’).

Transatlantic Light

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'Gauzy, tear-soaked blues noir… a shimmering wonder. Deliciously dark, sexy and dead cool'

mess & noise
'a spectral temptress'

Rolling Stone
'Divine… a real charmer… soaked in experience, in the kind of poetry that only comes from a life lived'

Clash
'Gloriously dreamy and swampy'

doubtful sounds
'sits in an intangible, magical, rarefied space, somewhere between Tom Waits and Dolly Parton'

Australian Stage
'Haunted quasi-country vibes and the Velvet's Loaded… listen to as you slow dance in the headlights'

Jack Sargeant
'Stark country-soul and shimmering blues... a direct line to the heart that showcases her glorious voice'

No Depression
'all silk and smoke … magnetically absorbing'

Fasterlouder
'Carmen can imbue her musical narratives with a glistening visual quality that renders the average comparable work a dull monotone text in comparison…the beauty of the French chanteuse and the intensity of the Dirty Three'

Patrick Emery, Beat
'sensual noir narratives…cinematic'

Daily Telegraph
'torch blues, gothic country, with occasional outbreaks of smoky nightclub has seduced many who hear it. She sings it, you believe her. And that’s enough'

Drum Media
‘a holy-glowing dreamscape of smoke-clouded guitars, loping basslines, and tantric drums that channel a history of sound recordings, from delta blues to chiaroscuro surf reveries, haunted pop ballads to modern bloodied valentines.’

Will Hermes

Everyone You Ever Knew (Is Coming Back To Haunt You) (2015)

The Apple Don't Fall Far From The Tree (2013)

Transatlantic Light

'Gauzy, tear-soaked blues noir… a shimmering wonder. Deliciously dark, sexy and dead cool'

'a spectral temptress'

'Divine… a real charmer… soaked in experience, in the kind of poetry that only comes from a life lived'

'Gloriously dreamy and swampy'

'sits in an intangible, magical, rarefied space, somewhere between Tom Waits and Dolly Parton'

'Haunted quasi-country vibes and the Velvet's Loaded… listen to as you slow dance in the headlights'

'Stark country-soul and shimmering blues... a direct line to the heart that showcases her glorious voice'

'all silk and smoke … magnetically absorbing'

'Carmen can imbue her musical narratives with a glistening visual quality that renders the average comparable work a dull monotone text in comparison…the beauty of the French chanteuse and the intensity of the Dirty Three'

'sensual noir narratives…cinematic'

'torch blues, gothic country, with occasional outbreaks of smoky nightclub has seduced many who hear it. She sings it, you believe her. And that’s enough'

‘a holy-glowing dreamscape of smoke-clouded guitars, loping basslines, and tantric drums that channel a history of sound recordings, from delta blues to chiaroscuro surf reveries, haunted pop ballads to modern bloodied valentines.’