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Carla J. Easton To Release New Album ‘I Think That I Might Love You’ On May 8 Via Ernest Jenning Record Co; Share New Single “Really, Really, Really, Really Sad”

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Carla J. Easton is excited to share her new single “Really, Really, Really, Really Sad” and its accompanying lyric video. The song is latest single to to be released from her new album I Think That I Might Love You out May 8 on Ernest Jenning Record Co. (pre-order).

I Think That I Might Love You marks a meaningful new chapter for Carla J. Easton: a pop record at its core, but her first built primarily around the guitar. The album grew out of her work on Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands, during which women repeatedly told her how they picked up an instrument, learned a few chords, and jumped headfirst into making music. Having long centered her own career around keys, across four solo albums, Carla J. Easton’s bands TeenCanteen and Poster Paints, and as part of The Vaselines’ live lineup, Easton felt compelled to follow that same instinctive leap.

Produced by Howard Bilerman (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wolf Parade, Leonard Cohen, The Weather Station), the album finds her collaborating closely with friends old and new, resulting in an album that feels both natural and transformative. The new album was inspired not only by her time making the Since Yesterday film, but also by her work within Hen Hoose, the Scottish songwriting collective that unites a diverse array of female and non-binary artists, writers and producers to create new work collaboratively. 

Recorded live off the floor at Glasgow’s legendary Chem 19 studio, with just a single day of rehearsal, I Think That I Might Love You captures the immediacy and warmth of Carla J. Easton’s performance. It’s an album animated by communal energy and trust, favoring feel and connection over polish, and reflecting Easton’s growing confidence as a songwriter.

At its emotional core, the album is about friendship: finding it, cherishing it, and learning how to live with its loss. That thread began years earlier in a recording booth at Third Man Records in Nashville, where Easton started writing with close friend and collaborator Brett Nelson. “We started writing about the idea of the red thread,” Easton says. “The idea that you have more than one soulmate, platonic as well as romantic, and that if you find any kind of thread connecting you to someone, it’s something worth following.”

That sense of shared discovery runs throughout I Think That I Might Love You, a record shaped by long road trips, exchanged voice notes, and collective moments of creation. Buoyant yet reflective, immediate yet deeply felt, it’s a vivid expression of connection and creative freedom, an album glowing with communal heart, stitched together by trust, joy, and the thrill of making something together.

Tour Dates:

May 26 – Leeds, UK @ Hyde Park Book Club (tickets)
May 27 – London, UK @ Paper Dress Vintage (tickets)
May 28 – Manchester, UK @ Low Four (tickets)
May 29 – Glasgow, SCT @  The Rum Shack (tickets)

Djordje Miladinović

Hi, my name is Djordje and music is my passion. You'll probably find me at the gigs, in a local record store, distro or in front of my PC searching for some quality music to listen to. Do not hesitate to contact me. By becoming a Patron, you're keeping Thoughts Words Action alive. https://www.patreon.com/thoughtswordsaction

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