Vertical London (New Year’s Day)

Album by Kate Carr

Releases 17 July 2026

Tracklist

  • 1
    Early birds and planes in Loughborough Junction
    0:40
  • 2
    I am not sure which tube station is the furthest below sea level, but I am visiting quite a few
    2:13
  • 3
    Under the Thames with cyclists, joggers and echoes in the Greenwich Foot Tunnel
    3:18
  • 4
    Popping up at Island Gardens
    2:45
  • 5
    The DLR is quite possibly the best sounding London train, electromagnetically speaking
    2:02
  • 6
    Celebrating a squeaky transport barrier
    2:33
  • 7
    Walking through Soho with tourists and delivery guys
    4:16
  • 8
    Arriving in Bloomsbury: yes I heard my first 'Happy New Year'
    2:44
  • 9
    An inaugural trip to Kilburn, which I have always wanted to visit because Doreen Massey lived here
    2:53
  • 10
    Overground then all uphill to Hampstead, a whispered neighbourhood of private security signs
    2:07
  • 11
    Daydream interlude (eating a not very nice lunch)
    1:23
  • 12
    Dramatic build-up to when I dipped into the shopping centre to find a man playing piano outside Aldi
    4:00
  • 13
    Why did I decide to go all the way across town to Crystal Palace park?
    4:04
  • 14
    I should never have doubted coming to Crystal Palace, a wonderland of crows and dinosaurs
    1:40
  • 15
    It was New Year's Day after all, and yes someone really was playing this at the overground station
    2:59
  • 16
    I don't think you can hear but people largely discussed dogs all the way back to central London
    2:37
  • 17
    A very long queue for the London Eye which is quite shit, and has awful commentary, although the view to be fair is beautiful
    1:27
  • 18
    Dramatic drummers on the street as I ran due to being late for my Shard viewing platform booking
    1:16
  • 19
    Taking two lifts inside the (rather divisive) Shard
    2:16
  • 20
    ‘Hello everyone and welcome to the View’, a sort of cupboard / bar, with London stretched out and twinkling below
    1:06
  • 21
    Said cupboard / bar is closing soon but let's have a cocktail still
    1:09
  • 22
    Tipsy aboard a Thameslink chariot home on this first day of 2026
    1:59

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