Carol Hodge makes Queen Of Fitting In sound like a beautiful contradiction

Carol Hodge’s Queen Of Fitting In carries one of those titles that immediately feels like a joke, a wound and a confession at the same time. Released on 3 June as part of Alive At Artisan Tap, the track places Hodge in her natural zone: piano-driven indie rock with torch-song drama, pop melody and a streak of existential humour running underneath. The Huddersfield songwriter has always had a way of making vulnerability feel muscular rather than fragile, and this live setting gives the performance extra electricity. You can imagine the room around it: the keys hit hard, the vocal doing that thing where bitter irony and optimism refuse to cancel each other out. Queen Of Fitting In works because it knows that fitting in is often the loneliest performance of all. Hodge turns that feeling into a song that sounds intimate, defiant and quietly theatrical.

Source: https://carolxhodge.bandcamp.com/track/queen-of-fitting-in-3