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| Clutter photo credit: Dan Kendall |
High energy Swedish band Clutter have announced the debut album ‘Sugar Rush’. There’s a new single too, you can jump around to it below.
Formed after the members met at music high school in Stockholm, Clutter – Hilda Ander (vocals/guitar/bass), Emma French (vocals/guitar/bass), Ove Jerndal (guitar/keys) and Ville Scott (drums/keys) – have built the band entirely on their own terms. Having previously played in various childhood bands and organised DIY shows at youth centres around Stockholm, the quartet recorded their early material themselves, with Ove producing everything from a basement studio. Influenced by generations of DIY outsiders including Bikini Kill, Pavement, Sonic Youth and even the fictional chaos of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Clutter have quickly become known for balancing punk immediacy with emotional vulnerability.
That balance sits at the heart of “Grease Baby”, a warm yet emotionally conflicted summer anthem that captures the dizzy contradictions of youth, desire and self-comparison. Built around fuzzy rock’n’roll guitars, motorik rhythms and shimmering melodies, the song teeters between admiration, insecurity and longing. Written by Emma French after a summer trip to Greece, the track explores the strange emotional duality of idolising someone while quietly measuring yourself against them.
Speaking on the new single, Clutter say: “Grease Baby paints a picture of a vacation. Of a never-ending summer and longing for something more, not quite knowing what. It’s a warm and kraut like rock song with elements of pop. It’s a happy sad song about yearning with a beautiful summer as a back-drop. Grease meets the sea.”
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