‘Spinning Plates’ is the first track taken from East Midland’s singer-songwriter Charlotte Carpenter’s debut album due late 2023.

“There’s a lot to unpack in this song” explains Charlotte, “from societal pressures on the roles you are meant to fulfill as a woman, alongside the struggle of keeping up a relentless positivity to being a musician – and how impossible it is to ever get the balance between the two.”

Born out of being overwhelmed, anxious, and it fight or flight mode, this inner turmoil acted like lighter fluid on the song which Charlotte describes as “Erupting out of nowhere and finished in one day,” with its thundering bluesy edges and burning refrain “I can’t find a way out, a way out, a way out.”

‘Spinning Plates’ is a defiant return with a background story offering a stark reminder of the prevailing sexism and exploitative power structures with the music industry.