Artist: Carla J Easton
Title: Really, Really, Really, Really Sad
Format: Limited edition cassingle
Cat#: Fika119CS1
Release date: 18th March 2026
Exclusive b-side: Romance Is Dead
Following her 2023 album SUGAR HONEY, Scottish songwriter, producer and now filmmaker Carla J Easton (Teen Canteen, Poster Paints, The Vaselines) made an award-winning documentary called Since Yesterday, about the history of pioneering Scottish girl groups. Their stories inspired Easton to take a new approach to her fifth album I Think That I Might Love You. She picked up the guitar and learned it for the first time, pushing her keyboard sound to the fringes on an album that's a celebration of guitar-led music - pop, indie and power.
First single "Oh Yeah" was released last month and Carla is following that up with "Really, Really, Really, Really Sad" - a song co-written with indie legend Darren Hayman (Hefner). It's out 18 March.
"This one sounds far happier than the title suggests," explains Carla. "I love songs that sound happier than they actually are."
"Really, Really, Really, Really Sad" is built like a power-pop sugar rush of big hooks, bouncing rhythms, and blistering guitars, but the lyric is basically the emotional equivalent of shrugging your shoulders after someone lets you down.
"I wrote it with Darren Hayman [of Hefner], who I first met years ago when I supported him. We reconnected later and started swapping voice notes with melodies and half-formed ideas. Darren is one of those writers who makes songwriting feel easy, playful, quick, and instinctive. This one arrived fast; it’s not melodrama. It’s not devastation. It’s just really, really, really, really sad."
"Really, Really, Really, Really Sad" and I Think That I Might Love You are both produced by Howard Bilerman (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wolf Parade,U.S. Girls, The Weather Station). The album was made with support from Creative Scotland.
About Carla J Easton
Carla J. Easton is an award nominated singer-songwriter, releasing 4 critically acclaimed solo albums. She is also a member of TeenCanteen and Poster Paints, and has written songs/music for Belle & Sebastian, BMX Bandits, Hen Hoose & National Theatre Scotland. Championed by BBC6 Music, she has performed at festivals across the UK and internationally (SXSW, Pop Montreal, The Great Escape, Celtic Connections, Indiefjord and Pop Cologne) touring the UK with Camera Obscura, The Vaselines and Kim Richey.
In 2018, she released the SAY Award Shortlisted 'Impossible Stuff’, produced by Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire/British Sea Power/Leonard Cohen) which featured singles that achieved Record of the Day, Guardian Track of the Week and BBC Scotland Single of the Week.
Her third album 'WEIRDO' was released in 2020 via Olive Grove Records - a record that Bandcamp Daily described as “all volume needles buried in the red, glitter bursting from every chorus.” The Line of Best Fit praised its “maximalist” tendencies while hinting that Scotland has found its own answer to the pop titans Carly Rae Jepsen and Taylor Swift and Pitchfork called it “bubblegum pop [with] the scrappy glamour of a homemade theatrical production”.
Her latest project Poster Paints was formed with Simon Liddell (Frightened Rabbit) during 2020. Their critically acclaimed self titled debut album was released by Ernest Jennings October 2022.
Her fourth studio album ‘SUGAR HONEY’ was released in 2023 via Olive Grove Records and featured the singles ‘One Week’, ‘Blooming 4U’ and the album title track ‘Sugar Honey’.
She is currently completing her 5th solo studio album, reuniting with Howard Bilerman to produce at Chem19, which has been supported by Creative Scotland.
Carla is a member of the Hen Hoose Collective and Co-Director of the feature-length documentary ‘Since Yesterday: The Unsung Pioneers of Scot