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Caroline K
Caroline Kaye Walters (1957 – 12 July 2008), known as Caroline K, was an English singer, songwriter, and artist/producer. She was a founding member of the UK based experimental/industrial music group Nocturnal Emissions in the 1980s. She co-founded Sterile Records with Nigel Ayers in London in 1980.
In 1986 she played piano on the Class War 7 inch EP single Better Dead Than Wed! released on Mortarhate Records.
She released her solo LP Now Wait for Last Year in 1987 (the first release on the Earthly Delights label). The album's title was taken from a Philip K. Dick book of the same name. She also performed as SM Andrews. She lived in Garfagnana, Italy.
Caroline K died on 12 July 2008 in Pisa, Italy, from leukemia complications.
In 2019, Mannequin Records released "Don't Believe It's Over" (a Caroline K track which originally appeared on the Nocturnal Emissions cassette Duty Experiment in 1988) as a 12" single with additional remixes.
In 2021, a previously unreleased Caroline K track "Mirrorball" recorded in 1983 was released as a 12" picture disc by Mannequin Records. In the same year, the NoiseExtra podcast dedicated an episode to Caroline K and her Now Wait for Last Year album.
A 2025 review of Now Wait for Last Year for the Discipline Mag website stated: "The album’s enduring power lies in its ability to create genuine psychological transformation through sustained listening—a reminder that music’s highest purpose involves changing how we perceive our relationship with time, space, and consciousness itself. In remembering Caroline K and her remarkable achievement, we acknowledge not only a lost artist but also alternative futures for electronic music that await rediscovery."
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Caroline K
Caroline Kaye Walters (1957 – 12 July 2008), known as Caroline K, was an English singer, songwriter, and artist/producer. She was a founding member of the UK based experimental/industrial music group Nocturnal Emissions in the 1980s. She co-founded Sterile Records with Nigel Ayers in London in 1980.
In 1986 she played piano on the Class War 7 inch EP single Better Dead Than Wed! released on Mortarhate Records.
She released her solo LP Now Wait for Last Year in 1987 (the first release on the Earthly Delights label). The album's title was taken from a Philip K. Dick book of the same name. She also performed as SM Andrews. She lived in Garfagnana, Italy.
Caroline K died on 12 July 2008 in Pisa, Italy, from leukemia complications.
In 2019, Mannequin Records released "Don't Believe It's Over" (a Caroline K track which originally appeared on the Nocturnal Emissions cassette Duty Experiment in 1988) as a 12" single with additional remixes.
In 2021, a previously unreleased Caroline K track "Mirrorball" recorded in 1983 was released as a 12" picture disc by Mannequin Records. In the same year, the NoiseExtra podcast dedicated an episode to Caroline K and her Now Wait for Last Year album.
A 2025 review of Now Wait for Last Year for the Discipline Mag website stated: "The album’s enduring power lies in its ability to create genuine psychological transformation through sustained listening—a reminder that music’s highest purpose involves changing how we perceive our relationship with time, space, and consciousness itself. In remembering Caroline K and her remarkable achievement, we acknowledge not only a lost artist but also alternative futures for electronic music that await rediscovery."