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Really, Really, Really, Really Sad

by Carla J. Easton

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    2 track cassette in a clear norelco shell, on body print onto a transparent blue cassette.
    Exclusive b-side!
    Both tracks Carla J. Easton and Darren Hayman co-writes.

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Really, Really, Really, Really Sad 02:33
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Romance Is Dead 02:35
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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. 

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released March 18, 2026

Both songs written by Carla J. Easton and Darren Hayman
Produced by Howard Bilerman at Chem19
Mastered by Novasound

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