There’s a point where memory stops behaving like nostalgia and starts sounding more like distortion, loud, messy and impossible to tidy up. WHO SHOT SCOTT leans straight into that space on ‘FAST CAR’, a track that trades polish for velocity and turns teenage insecurity into something combustible.
Arriving as the latest cut from his upcoming debut album HAIRY (out June 5), ‘FAST CAR’ is all blown-out drums, warped bass and vocals that feel like they’re barely holding the road. It’s not subtle, and it’s not meant to be. Instead, it captures a very specific kind of adolescent logic, the belief that one external fix, a car, a look, a moment, could rewrite everything.
Following the introspective weight of ‘PROBLEMS IN MY HEAD’ and the sideways swing of ‘BAD GIRLS’, this new single hits harder, both sonically and thematically. It revisits a time when status felt like survival, when being seen was currency, and when something as simple as horsepower could feel like a lifeline.
The accompanying video, directed by Connor Pritchard, undercuts that fantasy with something far more grounded. Rather than racing down highways, WHO SHOT SCOTT performs alone on a school bus, a quiet inversion that mirrors the track’s core tension. While others sped ahead, he was still sitting still, processing the gap between perception and reality.
That tension sits at the heart of HAIRY, a record framed as a reclamation project, pulling apart the scars of adolescence and reshaping them into something louder, sharper and deliberately unfiltered. Across its singles, including ‘LFTBU’ and ‘FRENCH FEVER’, the album builds a world that thrives in contradiction, part alternative hip hop, part punk abrasion, part electronic sprawl.
It’s a trajectory that’s been gathering pace for a while now. From APRA Silver Scroll nominations to international touring and a placement in the Borderlands 4 trailer, WHO SHOT SCOTT has carved out a space that resists neat categorisation. The UK run this May, alongside showcases at The Great Escape and NXNE, only adds to the sense that things are accelerating.
If ‘FAST CAR’ is anything to go by, he’s not slowing down to make it easier to follow.
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