CARLA TORGERSON

Photo: Tricia Cassels

Carla is a singer, guitarist, and founding member of The Walkabouts and duo Chris & Carla. From her earliest years as a musician she has drawn her influences from folk music, art and film, a medium she has worked in as an editor.

On Saint Stranger, Carla's debut solo album, she is joined by an impressive cast of musicians including Akis Boyatzis, Christine Gunn, Nancy Wharton, Dan Tyack, Fred Chalenor (Walkabouts), Bill Rieflin (Ministry, Swans) and Michael Wells (Walkabouts).

Carla's 2024 album Beckonings is out now on Drums & Wires Recordings.

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“A richly diverse collection that reacquaints us with Torgerson’s skills as a singer, a song-interpreter, an arranger and a collaborator, as well as her lesser-explored role as a writer... Beckonings defies expectations as a nine-part suite that rewardingly refreshes Torgerson’s sound palette... For the penultimate passage of Beckonings, we’re taken through the lushly configured but lyrically dark [and] sublime “Sunken Hearts,” which reminds us again of the strong European influences that seeped into post-Sub Pop Walkabouts albums, as well as making nods to Nick Drake’s Bryter Later. The song’s beatific synth-edged symphonic reach conceals a tender mournful eulogy to two tragically lost family members.”

- Adrian, FREQ UK