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New EP Conversations in My Head Releases November 5, 2026
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Public Stream EP November 5, 2026
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Vancouver songwriter Alex Little returns November 5 with Conversations in My Head, a new three-song EP released via Light Organ Records. Poppy, punky, and wired with new-wave hooks, it finds Little doing what she does best: turning the ugly stuff rattling around inside her head into songs catchy enough to sing back at it. There’s Blondie in the cool melodic instinct, Buzzcocks in the collision of hooks and guitars, and some B-52’s weirdness around the edges, but Little’s perspective is unmistakably her own. Funny, anxious, self-aware, and never quite convinced by its own reassurance. That mix of melody, nerves, and rock and roll instinct goes back a long way. Little grew up in a Vancouver house where records by The Replacements, Bowie, The Beatles, and Iggy Pop were part of the furniture. Her father, drummer Taylor Little, supplied plenty of the soundtrack, while her mother, visual artist and graphic designer Pauline White, brought another kind of creative language into the family. Before she was ten, Alex had already been taken to see Tom Jones and Roxy Music. By high school she was behind a drum kit herself, eventually finding her way into Vancouver punk bands including Vapid before stepping out from behind the kit and becoming a singer, songwriter, and frontperson.
Her Vancouver is still close at hand. Around Granville Island, water taxis putter back and forth across False Creek while busted-up sailboats bob offshore, gulls wait for the exact second you stop guarding your french fries, and the slightly funky smell of seawater rolls in with the tide. Little knew these places as a kid and now knows them from the other side, raising a family in the same city that raised her. There’s something fitting about that overlap for a songwriter so interested in the distance between who you were, who you think you are, and whatever version of yourself your brain has decided to argue with today. If 2025’s Spider in the Sink found Little confronting fear, self-doubt, and the feeling that your own brain might be working against you, Conversations in My Head tightens the screws. Across three songs, Little circles the uncomfortable gap between what we know and what we can actually make ourselves believe. Sometimes that means watching people look away from something ugly. Sometimes it means staring at your own reflection until every perceived flaw becomes evidence. Sometimes it means knowing you shouldn’t need somebody else to tell you you’re okay, then needing them to say it anyway. The title track lives right in the middle of that spiral. Over a slick, mid-tempo guitar groove, Little picks apart her voice, her teeth, her body, and a social interaction she’s already replayed enough times to convince herself a friendship might be over. It’s painfully familiar territory, but she refuses to turn it into solemn confession. The song moves with the nervous energy of someone who knows the conversation is irrational and is having it anyway. Self-awareness, it turns out, doesn’t make the voice shut up.
“Look Away” pushes that conflict outward. Sinister but danceable, the track takes aim at silence and denial, particularly the way people can recognize harmful behaviour and still choose the comfort of pretending it isn’t there. Little doesn’t offer a tidy resolution. Instead, the song sits inside the frustration of watching something poisonous remain unspoken while everyone carries on around it. “Validation” brings the EP back inside her head. Aspirational and triumphant on the surface, it is built around a much less flattering admission: sometimes knowing your own worth isn’t enough. You still want someone else to hand it back to you. It’s an especially revealing place for Little to land because this isn’t her first time wrestling with the problem. Years ago, she was already talking publicly about learning to stop worrying about impressing people who didn’t genuinely care about her. Knowing better and feeling better, apparently, are two very different things.
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Recorded at 604 Studios with Catherine Hiltz, who produced, recorded, and mixed the EP, Conversations in My Head keeps all of that psychological mess wrapped in lean, immediate rock and roll. Little’s longtime collaborator and partner Adam Sabla contributes bass, guitar, and keys, while Jamal Ruhe handled mastering. The result feels connected to Little’s established garage-pop and new-wave instincts without simply retracing Spider in the Sink. These songs are compact, melodic, restless, and slightly crooked around the edges. It also feels like the latest point on a path Little has been following since she first climbed out from behind the drum kit. From growing up with her dad’s records spinning in the house, to Vancouver punk bands, Alex Little and the Suspicious Minds, and now records under her own name, she has spent years writing her way through addiction, loneliness, money, motherhood, heartbreak, fear, mental health, and the strange negotiations required to live with yourself. Conversations in My Head doesn’t pretend those negotiations ever really end. Growing up doesn’t silence the voice. Self-awareness doesn’t necessarily fix it. Sometimes all you can do is turn it into a song, make the chorus good enough to drown it out for three minutes, and hit play again when it comes back.
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