Clutter announce their debut EP and share new single ‘Kraut’

Clutter have announced their debut EP ‘Clutter Loves You’, set for release on 11th April via PNKSLM Recordings, alongside sharing new single ‘Kraut’.

The Stockholm-based four-piece, comprising Hilda Ander, Emma French, Ove Jerndal, and Ville Scott, blend grunge and post-hardcore influences through distorted guitars and fuzzy vocals. ‘Kraut’, which premiered on BBC Radio 6 Music with Tom Ravenscroft, serves as the EP’s closing track and was the first song the band recorded together.

“At our first gig we only played two songs and that was one of them, so it’s quite sentimental,” the band share. “Playing stuff live becomes the benchmark of what we feel about a song and how a crowd reacts, and that was one of the first songs where it all felt right.”

Speaking about the track’s origins, they add: “‘Kraut’ is a straightforward, endless cycle of static guitars. The simple build is accompanied by emotion filled vocals and a melancholic synthesizer. It’s a dreamlike krauty death dance and it’s one of the first songs we ever wrote together. Hilda wrote the lyrics on her endless way home from one of the first real parties she ever attended and we wrote the music together in our old school. Recorded in Oves tiny childhood bedroom, we were all hovered over a little synthesizer and improvised the noises at the end. It’s nostalgic and captures a feeling of adolescence we all will undoubtedly lose.”

The six-track EP follows their debut double A-side single ‘Jesus’/’Holy Brother’.

The dates in full read:

FEBRUARY
17 Concorde2, Brighton, UK
18 Castle & Falcon, Birmingham, UK
20 Saint Luke’s, Glasgow, UK
21 Gorilla, Manchester, UK
22 Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
24 The Fleece, Bristol, UK
25 Papillon, Southampton, UK
26 Electric Ballroom, London, UK

APRIL
16 The Lexington, London, UK