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Carla J. Easton has announced her new album I Think That I Might Love You, due out on May 8 via Ernest Jenning Record Co.. Alongside the announcement, she has shared the album’s opening track ‘Oh Yeah’ and its accompanying video, directed by Jacob Ceris Gandy. The single is available now across digital platforms and sets the tone for a record shaped by connection, instinct, and shared creation.
‘Oh Yeah’ opens the album with warmth and momentum. Co-written with Simon Liddell of Poster Paints, the song moves quickly, driven by melody and feeling rather than restraint. It introduces the record with a sense of openness and motion, framing the album as a space where ideas arrive fast and are followed without hesitation.
The new album marks a clear shift in how Carla approaches her writing. While pop remains central to her sound, I Think That I Might Love You is her first album built primarily around guitar. That change grew out of her work on Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands, where she repeatedly heard stories of women picking up instruments, learning a handful of chords, and making music without waiting for permission. After years centred on keys, across four solo albums, her bands TeenCanteen and Poster Paints, and as part of The Vaselines’ live lineup, she felt drawn to that same direct leap.
A record shaped by people and place
The album was produced by Howard Bilerman and recorded live off the floor at Glasgow’s Chem 19 studio, following just a single day of rehearsal. That approach prioritised feel and human connection, capturing performances as they happened rather than refining them through repetition. The result is an album that feels immediate and communal, shaped by trust between collaborators.
That sense of collaboration runs through the writing itself. I Think That I Might Love You features eleven songs and includes co-writes with a wide circle of artists and friends. Contributors include Simon Liddell, MALKA from the Hen Hoose collective, Man of the Minch, Canadian songwriter Brett Nelson, and Darren Hayman of Hefner. The project was influenced by Carla’s involvement in Hen Hoose, a Scottish songwriting collective bringing together female and non-binary artists, writers, and producers to create work collaboratively.
At its emotional centre, the album focuses on friendship. The songs explore finding connection, holding onto it, and learning how to live with its absence. That thread began years earlier during writing sessions with Brett Nelson, where the idea of the red thread first emerged. Carla describes it as the belief that there are multiple soulmates, both platonic and romantic, and that any genuine thread connecting two people is worth following.
That idea runs quietly through the record, binding its songs together. Shaped by long journeys, exchanged voice notes, and shared moments of creation, I Think That I Might Love You reflects growing confidence and a willingness to trust instinct. It is a record built on people, presence, and the joy of making something together.
Carla will support the album with a run of UK shows later in May, including dates in Leeds, London, Manchester, and Glasgow.
You can listen to ‘Oh Yeah’ on your platform of choice and you can follow Carla J. Easton over on Instagram.