Chloe Hawes has released “James Dean,” a stripped-open punk-tinged confession that is a reckoning with self-destruction and the ghosts we carry. Hawes pushes back against the romanticism of rebellion, trading posturing for something messier and real. Playing every instrument but the drums (Anna Reed), the song features a smoky, intimate vocal that splits open the logic of “doing it for the plot.” Even in the fallout, there remains a hunger for truth and escape in this raw alt-punk track.
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