Naarm/Melbourne songwriter Chitra returns with ‘Big Shot’, a searing and defiant new single taken from her forthcoming debut album You Can See It When It’s Dark, independently out on August 1. LISTEN TO ‘BIG SHOT’ HERE + PRE-SAVE THE LP HERE.

With the release of ‘Big Shot’, Chitra unveils one of her most urgent and emotionally raw songs to date – written in the aftermath of a dinner party where misogyny was served more freely than the food. Frustrated by the experience and even more so by her own restraint in the moment, the track channels white-hot anger into something propulsive and ultimately freeing.

“Big Shot came from this awful dinner party where I sat there as men I barely knew talked about women in absolutely disgusting ways,” Chitra shares. “I did speak up somewhat, but drove home absolutely seething at myself for not saying more. That drive was just me bubbling with anger—at them and at myself. It was like the final straw.”

Blending jagged guitars and anthemic hooks with biting lyrics echoing the visceral energy of Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers or The Beaches, ‘Big Shot’ skewers inflated egos and casual cruelty: “Do you get comfort from being a big shot, honey?” she sneers, the line looping like a mantra both mocking and cathartic.

Yet for all its rage, ‘Big Shot’ is also a track about reclaiming space. “Performing it live has shifted something in me,” Chitra reflects. “I’ve always felt caught between worlds—with my ethnicity, my body, and so many other parts of who I am. But I’m learning that I don’t need to squeeze myself into someone else’s definition of belonging. The real freedom comes from being honest with myself and connecting genuinely with the people who matter.”

Set to appear on her anticipated debut album You Can See It When It’s Dark, ‘Big Shot’ offers a glimpse into a record that explores the tension and beauty of duality—rage and softness, grief and joy, solitude and community. Spanning four years of life and transformation, the album is a document of emotional survival, creative rebirth, and personal reckoning.

“I committed to writing what I craved to hear, not what others expected me to sound like,” Chitra says of the album. “I needed something that felt bigger, more expansive, and honestly, more fun to play. I had this persistent urge to dance around a stage or scream into a pillow—a release for everything that had been building up inside.”

Produced by John Castle (Cub Sport, Angie McMahon, Hatchie), the album reflects both Chitra’s gift for songwriting and her growing sense of creative self-assurance. Its tracks range from explosive and bold to intimate and meditative, embracing contradiction as a form of truth.

With You Can See It When It’s Dark, Chitra steps fully into her voice—clear-eyed, unfiltered, and unapologetically her own.