Stockholm four-piece Clutter play knotty, blown-out punk rock with a lot going on underneath; lyrically they’re picking at big questions, existential, political, but the noise is too good to get preachy about it.
They name songs after Wes Anderson films and bury the references so deep in the fuzz you’d never find them. They had a UK run with Hinds and released debut EP ‘Loves You’ last year, and they’ve been getting louder and better ever since.
Their thing is Sonic Youth fuzz colliding with early Wolf Alice energy, dual vocals trading lines with a kind of coiled, crackling chemistry. Hilda Ander and Emma French are both guitarists who had to fight to take up space at their Stockholm music school and that defiance is audible.
New single ‘GirlVsHeart’ is gnarly and hook-laden and about love, which is a more interesting combination than it sounds. As the band put it, “it’s a heavy-hitting, almost arena rock song about love”.
🎧 Watch the video for ‘GirlVsHeart’ below