[Cover photo credit to  Kimberly Fongheiser]

Alt-Pop artist Charlotte Dickson has released new single “Nervous”, offering another look at the songwriting behind her forthcoming debut album, Collateral Damage, coming out October 16, 2026, via Blue Élan Records.
 
“Nervous” explores “what happens when personal struggles begin to affect the way we experience love.” This includes “how struggles with mental health can quietly seep into love and connection, turning reassurance into fear and closeness into doubt.” Dickson looks at the “uncertainty that can take hold when you want to trust someone but your own thoughts keep getting in the way.”

The album Collateral Damage also ties into these themes and is “built around the parts of relationships that are often harder to talk about: betrayal, emotional distance, resentment, anxiety, attachment and the fallout that remains when things don’t end cleanly.”
 
Dickson’s songwriting comes from a personal place where she often writes about heartbreak, “but about the complicated emotions that can surround it.”

Dickson says about the album:

COLLATERAL DAMAGE is a collection of all of the songs I’ve written as proof to me that even unintended destruction leaves a story worth telling. Although the hardest wounds came from battles I never chose to fight, there can be beauty in creating something meaningful out of things that are out of your control.