Charlotte Cornfield’s new album “Hurts Like Hell” is out later this month, and the third single is “Lost Leader,” which features Christian Lee Hutson. “This is a hard song,” she says. “But I also think it’s a little bit funny. Tragicomic maybe? It’s about a tormented frontman character whose personal demons and poor behaviour are getting the best of him. The story is told in second person but there are two perspectives represented here: the struggling artist and the disappointed fan. Christian Lee Hutson sings the part of the ‘lost leader,’ and though he only has a few lines he delivers the hell out of them.”
Cornfield is a sharp-eyed songwriter, who, like her contemporary Courtney Barnett, is particularly adept at both reinforcing and undercutting the emotional core of her narratives with quotidian detail and slacker silliness: “Music is my bread and butter,”
Cornfield began identifying the thesis statements of her favourite albums at a young age. Growing up in Toronto, Cornfield describes herself as a “real CBC kid”: Her father worked at the Canadian public radio station as a jazz and classical music radio producer, while her mother worked as an editor at a parenting magazine called Today’s Parent.
By 2019, Cornfield had already released two critically-acclaimed records, but she decided it was time to pursue music full time. She quit her day job and released 2019’s “The Shape of Your Name“, a breakthrough for Cornfield in Canada followed by her 2020 EP “In Your Corner”.
From the album “Hurts Like Hell”, out March 27th, 2026 on Merge Records / Next Door Records.
The Fat Angel Sings 