Clean, jangling textures sit alongside flashes of distortion, giving the song a softer 90s alt-rock and grunge feel as it spirals towards a cathartic release. Eventually everything falls away, returning Weinman to where she began: alone with her acoustic guitar. There’s melancholy in that retreat, but an unexpected sense of peace too, before the title arrives as the song’s final lingering question.

The accompanying video makes that emotional dislocation tangible. Weinman wanders a funfair, riding the carousel and Ferris wheel, playing games and watching banger cars, while other scenes find her peering into a doll’s house or playing guitar alone in the darkness. Surrounded by places and objects associated with fun, ‘Do you think you can live without dying every day?’ quietly asks what happens when you can no longer tell whether you’re enjoying any of it.

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Charlotte says of the track: “This is the first song I wrote for the EP. I started writing it the night my partner of many years and I decided to break up. The version I wrote that night was like a million verses longer and the lyrics were completely raw and pathetic, which I say with love. They were open wounds. The only lyrics that remain from that first pass is the chorus. As I’ve gotten distance from the situation that begot the song, a lot of my sadness has been energized, and I’ve been more interested in exploring the anger. So we fanged this song, too. It’s been fun watching people connect to it when we play it live.”

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When Weinman decided to build a project she could hang her own flag on, Horsepower materialized swiftly and organically. Music offered the perfect opportunity to translate the things she loved about playwriting to a brand new medium — pair this with a flair for theatrics and an eclectic scattering of influences ranging from Hole and Sleater Kinney to Lomelda, and Horsepower was born.

Last month, Horsepower released her debut single “Are you blushing?”. Now, Horsepower returns to announce her signing to Rose Garden and her self-titled debut EP (out June 27). To mark the announce she is sharing the new single ‘Excalibur.’

Charlotte says of the track: “I was soooo mad when I wrote this song. Anger can be really hard for me to sustain, so writing this was an exercise in stamina for that. As I was writing, though, I started to find the anger kind of silly too, so there’s definitely an element of that in here. When we’re fighting righteous fights full of love, if we’re good to each other, we’re occupying both sides of the argument. In this song, I tried to capture the conflict from above — how stupidly unavoidable it feels to dig into a bad conversation at an inconvenient time.

“I grew up as a massive fan of Hole and Sleater-Kinney and Kim Gordon, and I’ve always generally had a huge attraction to women who are being serrated and disgusting with their language and presence, and not aestheticizing their anger — “feminine rage” etc. — but expressing it with a critical mass of urgency and conviction to dress it up or perform it any other way.”

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