Renee-Louise Carafice wins Alternatui for Album of the Year

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 […]

Renee-Louise Carafice - House on Fire

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“House on Fire” is the second single from Carafice’s debut album “Renee-Louise Carafice Tells You to Fight”. It was written for Texan alt-country singer Micah P Hinson who Carafice met while supporting him on his New Zealand tour in 2005.
“We were instant buddies and got on extremely well,” Carafice explains. “For me that was quite […]

Renee-Louise Carafice - Tells You To Fight

Renee-Louise Carafice is a dark-folk-pop songstress born in New Zealand based in Chicago. With a bitingly honest and brutally fragile voice, she sings of her “messy rollercoaster ride” of a life, over rich and complex melodic structures.
Carafice sings with an alarming openness about desperation, love, loss, homelessness and longing, all the while maintaining a sense […]

Renee-Louise Carafice - Bodhisattva

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‘Bodhisattva’ is the first single from Renee-Louise Carafice’s debut album, ‘Tells You to Fight’ to be released on the 28th April. The video was shot and directed by Chicago-based Israel Alpizar.
Renee-Louise on Bodhisattva
“One of my friends was really struggling, deep in this mess - a very melodramatic
character who had a reputation for feeling suicidal […]