South London sibling duo PUNCHBAG (Clara and Anders Bach) announce new EP, I Am Obsessed, out 10 April via Mute, alongside the release of its lead single and title track. The EP will also mark the band’s first-ever physical release, arriving as a Dinked Early Doors vinyl which pairs new EP I Am Obsessed with their debut EP I’m Not Your Punchbag in one combined release. Opening on off-kilter piano stabs, the track sets up a tension that quickly gives way to something far darker beneath their restless left-field pop. Clara’s lyrics frame fixation as bodily and inescapable, from dirt under fingernails to crumbs in bedsheets and thoughts that won’t leave your chest.
“It’s about being completely obsessed with something or someone, but not in a cute way, more in a ‘your whole body is under attack’ kinda way. It’s sort of disordered, chaotic, overwhelming,” Clara explains.
Speaking more on their upcoming second EP, the band said:
“If our first EP was a selfie, these new songs are like zooming in and thinking, ‘fucking hell my pores look huge’. This EP is turning up the contrast on everyday life, rinsing the disgusting dish towel so far that all the gunk comes out. It’s pushing PUNCHBAG’s sonic world even further, into a grander landscape, and dramatising the everyday more than ever before.”
With each release, Clara and Anders continue to push their instincts further, tightening their sound and leaning harder into the extremes that define it – all part of a wider mission to distil the most intense, concentrated version of who they are as artists. That intensity spills directly into their live shows, where the duo’s sibling chemistry and unfiltered energy have earned a reputation for turning rooms into something closer to group therapy than a gig – a visceral, communal thrill and a celebration of feeling too much, all at once.
PUNCHBAG will be heading out on their debut UK and Europe headline tour in April – more details coming very soon.
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