Album Review: Carla J. Easton – I Think That I Might Love You

All dreamy falsettos and punchy lyricism

If you’re looking for a new album to overplay this summer, I Think That I Might Love You is a fantastic choice to obsess over. With so many exciting elements peppered throughout each song, it would likely take the entire season to find something to get sick of hearing over and over again.

Dainty electric guitar and synths litter the entire track list. The purposefully childish vocals on the opening track, “Oh Yeah,” set the tone for the album to come. Where any other artist could easily fall into immaturity, Carla J. Easton manages to twist the juvenility into youthful pop excellence. This theme is carried through the following track, “Red Kites In The Sun.” The album title makes surprise repeated appearances in the lyrics, shifting what initially sounds apprehensive into a brave confession that only gains more momentum as the song continues.

“Let’s Make Plans For The Weekend” introduces a deeper bass and rhythmic vocals for an ‘80s mall-pop revival moment. The entire first minute of the song is spent building up to the infectious chorus with incredibly catchy lyrics and piano-like chimes. Easton’s unbeatable taste in percussion makes yet another appearance here for a radio-ready summer song about going out, feeling every positive emotion under the sun and having the most fun possible at any given moment.

The tone immediately shifts in the following song, “You Might Be The Sun,” which spins a new yarn regarding the one that got away. Easton’s poetic songwriting painfully recalls intimate moments of the past. Despite admitting that she and the subject of the song may have been perfect for each other, “now all is said and done.” Easton honestly and heartbreakingly confesses that she misses the subject even if they take a piece of her, one of her sunbeams, every time they leave.

Track seven, “Really, Really, Really, Really Sad,” shines amongst the other tracks like a diamond in a sea of near-equally valuable gemstones. The track’s bright synthesizer pairs perfectly with the funny yet fittingly “really, really, really, really sad” lyrics. The bridge brings back the aforementioned electric guitar for a well-earned change of pace that rounds out the song.

Easton’s dreamily adorable vocals and layered upbeat percussion pair amazingly for an artfully naïve beauty of an album in I Think That I Might Love You.