We Get What We Get & We Don't Get Upset

by Carmel Smickersgill

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ftumptch63 Thanks to BBC Radio 3's Unclassified with Elizabeth Alker for introducing me to a universe of great music. Favorite track: Questioning.

Tom Smith Saw Carmel opening for Anna Meredith at the Barbican at the weekend and this EP is an absolute treat. Equal parts clever, barmy and catchy! Favorite track: Leaving.

Leon Frey I am absolutely enamoured by Smickersgill’s music. The screwball beats roll with emotional weight and there’s a masterful quality to their put-together too. I can’t get enough!

Alex Totally original album. Such wonderful refreshing weirdness. Really a pleasure to listen to!

Edward Curtis this feels like a wonderful, intensively worked little ep of ideas and sounds....it brims, steps sideways, and enthralls you! I really like it! Favorite track: Thinking.

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1.	Greeting 03:24	buy track
2.	Questioning 02:47	buy track
3.	Interval 01:33	buy track
4.	Leaving 03:06	buy track
5.	Thinking 03:40	buy track

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“Silly music that comes from serious places” is how Smickersgill modestly describes the crackling flashpoints and thrillingly assembled palette of sounds that make up her PRAH Recordings debut We Get What We Get & We Don’t Get Upset’s contorted pop.

“There was a lot of grief, death, mental illness and dread around me at the time I was writing it. The tracks really are an ode to all the people I cared about who were suffering,” she says. “But there are parts where I’ve put stuff in because I want to catch people out and make them laugh.”

We Get What We Get And We Don't Get Upset may be Smickersgill’s debut standalone release, but her young career has already taken her down a rich array of different paths. Originally from Leeds, she grew up playing guitar in indie bands and jazz combos, before quickly finding herself drawn to the writing and arranging aspects of these various projects.

Opting to study composition at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester under the tutelage of Gary Carpenter – who can list associate music director for The Wicker Man among his many credits – she’s since written for theatre as well as numerous chamber and vocal works. Her pieces have been performed by the Liverpool Philharmonic and Glasgow-based collective the Galvanise Ensemble, among others. In 2017, meanwhile, she performed with New Order as part of ∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) – the legendary group’s 2017 Manchester International Festival commission.

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released April 15, 2022

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