Last fall, when Charlotte Sands unleashed her new single “pity” — which landed on our Year in ReView 2024 — she had the fans in mind. “Making this song was such a fun experience,” she said. “I wanted the production to feel like a high-energy show opener while the melody stayed simple and repetitive so everyone could scream the words together when we finally get to perform it live.”
For us here in Boston, that chance arrives tonight (April 2), as the Hopkinton native returns to the Bay State to play the Paradise Rock Club. Sands brings along January album can we start over?, which has elevated the Nashville alt-pop and alt-rock artist’s game even higher.
The record is fueled by “pity,” a swirling menace of mechanical mayhem that first surfaced in November, setting a noisy tone for the forthcoming debut album. And it hit like Paramore gone late-’90s industrial. “‘Pity’ is a song about meeting ‘the perfect person’ and wishing you could be more like them,” she says. “It’s about the feeling of jealousy and comparing yourself but also about the experience of being captivated by someone else’s existence.”
Get ready to scream it back at Sands.
CHARLOTTE SANDS + SENSES + CLOE WILDER :: Tuesday, April 2 at the Paradise Rock Club, 967 Commonwealth Ave. in Allston, MA :: 7 p.m., all ages, $22 :: Event info :: Advance tickets
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