Renee-Louise Carafice’s debut album has been awarded the Alternatui Album of the Year by the NZ Music blog Counting the Beat.

“It may make for disturbing listening but Renee-Louise Carafice’s album Tells You To Fight is a stunning and unique album. By now, surely everyone knows that the songs on the album were her reaction to a period of hospitalisation for depression. On the basis of the early demos she went on to win a major cash prize and then produced this album in the USA. Carafice avoids the trap of producing a bunch of overwrought solo recordings that the subject matter may have suggested. The arrangements and production and Carafice’s unique voice result in songs that are dramatic in their content and delivery. This stands out as a great NZ album.”

Renee-Louise Carafice Tells You To Fight was also recently named in the top ten albums of 2008 by Nick Bollinger in the New Zealand Listener.