Lexi Carr shares raw new single ‘Ready to Own My Shit’ ahead of debut EP

Multifaceted artist and creative director Lexi Carr has returned with her most candid track to date, sharing new single ‘Ready to Own My Shit’.

Out now via APOLLO Distribution, the self-produced track is a messy, genre-blurring burst of honesty that feels part diary entry, part sonic experiment. Built from shifting textures and hooky fragments, the song leans into Carr’s instinctive songwriting style, where nothing sits neatly in one lane.

“It’s really just a journal entry,” Carr explains of the track. “It’s about being ready to face the good and the bad that life throws at you — the little mundane things like getting a latte for your partner and the bigger morbid things, like people around you dying or deciding not to be part of your life.”

Originally unsure about the production — which she handled herself — Carr almost handed the track over to another producer before deciding to trust her own instincts.

“I produced it myself not knowing what I was doing and wanting some big cool producer to ‘fix’ it,” she says. “Then someone I trusted told me it was perfect as is and that I did know what I was doing, so I decided to believe them.”

Mixed by Cian Riordan (St. Vincent), who previously described Carr’s sound as “groundbreaking,” the track offers a glimpse into the fearless approach that defines her work — emotionally direct, sonically restless and unafraid to veer off course.

‘Ready to Own My Shit’ arrives ahead of Carr’s upcoming seven-track EP Everyone’s Talking, due April 10, which promises to open the door fully into her eclectic creative world. Although Carr has spent years shaping visual identities for artists including Sudan Archives, Future Islands and Vagabon as a creative director, her own music has largely stayed hidden away — a growing archive of demos stored quietly on hard drives.

Now, she’s finally ready to let them loose.

“This is the year of free the hard drives,” she says.

If ‘Ready to Own My Shit’ is anything to go by, that release might be long overdue.