”Like Us! A Hyper-Realistic Humanoid Robot Instrument.”

Clutter will be playing live tomorrow at PNKSLM’s event at SPICE H2O. Here’s a short interview with the band.

Q: What made you start playing the kind of music you play? What do you think shaped you?

A: The music we listened to when we were younger. All of our parents have great taste in music. There was a lot of ’90s punk and Britpop that we bonded over. Guitar-based rock has always been the coolest to us. Bands like Green Day and Avril Lavigne were also inspiring when we were younger.

Q: Have any of you been in other bands before?

A: Yes. Ove and Ville were in a band together in middle school, and Hilda was part of a rock band formed through Kulturskolan with three other girls when they were between 11 and 14 years old.

Q: What are your songs generally about, if you could draw a common thread through them?

A: Coming of age in love and insecurity. A lot of it is presented through a slightly rosy lens and told through material possessions, pop culture references, and funny words. We like to paint a picture.

Q: If you had unlimited resources to construct your own instrument, what would it look like?

A: Like us! A humanoid robot instrument, hyper-realistic.

Q: How did you get signed to Punk Slime?

A: We emailed them some demos, mainly songs from our debut EP Loves You. We were actually planning to release the songs ourselves and let it be our “goodbye” EP before quitting the band. But PNKSLM liked them, we had a meeting, and they welcomed us so warmly that we signed the contract almost immediately. It was the push we needed to keep making music, and we’ve never regretted it.

Q: If you were forced to play a genre you really wouldn’t want to play, what would be the worst possible choice?

A: God, what a difficult question. We could play anything as long as it didn’t involve a hateful message.

Q: If you could write the future of your band straight into the Akashic Records, what would you write there?

A: We become celebrated and loved and never have to work a regular job again. We tour for about eight weeks a year, and spend the rest of the time writing new music, making cool fanzines, studying history, and cooking good food. We’re extremely happy, appear on Vogue’s 71 Questions, and so on…

We get a ten from Anthony Fantano and Pitchfork. We end up on the cover of DN Kultur. But we’re not interested in a Rolling Stones-style career—we want to retire eventually. Maybe mysteriously disappear in our 60s and live off our fortunes.