CLT DRP Reveal Video For New Single ‘I See My Body Through You’ + Announce Winter 2023 UK Headline Tour Dates

CLT DRP Reveal Video For New Single ‘I See My Body Through You’ Released 16th August 2023 via Venn Records

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Announce Winter 2023 UK Headline Tour Dates Ahead of ArcTanGent Festival Stage Headline Appearance

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New Album Nothing Clever, Just Feelings Released 8th September 2023 via Venn Records

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“Catching ears and turning heads with their frenetic and often confrontational music” - Atwood Magazine
“Full of interesting ideas and attitude other bands would struggle to replicate” - Kerrang! Magazine
"Brighton's best kept secret...glitchy, twitchy songs of female empowerment" - DORK
“Strange and brutal EDM-flavoured punk” - GIGWISE [5/5]
"The sound of chaos harnessed" - UPSET [4/5]
“This stuff is fabulous” - Louder Than War

Fresh from a support slot with electronic music pioneer Gary Numan in Antwerp, Brighton-based feminist electro-punk trio CLT DRP are pleased to reveal the video for their new single ‘I See My Body Through You’ which is released on 16th August 2023 via all good streaming services.

The track is the latest to be taken from their forthcoming second album Nothing Clever, Just Feelings which will be released on 8th September 2023 via Venn Records (Bob Vylan, Witch Fever, Meryl Streek).

Previous singles ‘NEW BOY’ and ‘Nothing Clever, Just Feelings’ have picked up rapidly increasing radio support from Iggy Pop, Steve Lamacq, Tom Robinson, and Deb Grant at BBC6 Music, been added to the Radio X X-Posure playlist, appeared on The Selector with Jamz Supernova, and landed high profile DSP support from Spotify’s ‘Misfits 2.0’, ‘All New Punk’ and ‘The Other List’, Amazon’s Breakthrough Rock and Deezer’s ASAP Rock.

Alongside the single, the band have also announced a run of Winter 2023 UK headline tour dates with tickets on sale now (see below for listings). CLT DRP are already causing a stir across UK and EU festivals this year, having played sets at The Great Escape, 2000 Trees, Boomtown, Best Kept Secret (NL), Premices (CH), and now gearing up to headline a stage at ArcTanGent this coming weekend.

Commenting on the track, witches comes with an official video directed by Alice Strutt, vocalist Annie Dorrett says: "'I See My Body Through You' is probably one of the tracks we’re looking forward to putting out the most. The content of the song set against the visuals all came out perfectly. There’s a lot behind this song, different ways to interpret it, but the unsettling feeling and tension in the orchestration and in the video match up to the emotions that created this song in the first place—the emotions of being constantly on show, being objectified, and your own confidence being warped because of other people's gaze. I think Alice heard the song and understood those feelings immediately, as most women do, and came up with some striking and strange concepts for the video. Working together, videographer Sam Morris captured Alice's vision which led to this beautifully eerie video."

Director Alice Strutt says of the shoot: “Inspired by the song’s content, the video embraces the use of ambiguous imagery, employing fractured reflections and obscured veils to symbolise the interplay between how we imagine others perceive us and its effect on our self-perception. The aim was to create impactful and disjointed visuals that invite contemplation of the blurred lines between reality and interpretation.”

Recorded at Shaken Oak Studios in Oxford over the course of a week in March 2022, Nothing Clever, Just Feelings was produced by Alex Gordon (The Cure, Tigercub, Sea Power, Blood Red Shoes). With the studio based in a rural setting on a farm, guitarist Scott Reynolds enjoyed a morning trail run before starting each day, and the band cooked family-style for each other every day.

“It was very wholesome and much needed,” recalls Dorrett. “Joking about in the studio with Alex and making little moments pop on the record.”

“Being surrounded by this gorgeous, serene place,” adds drummer Daphne Koskeridou, “it was such a privilege waking up and playing music all day, with no distractions, just fueling our passion to create something special.”

Showcasing CLT DRP’s unique position at the cutting edge of electronic, noise-infused music, Nothing Clever, Just Feelings seamlessly merges various genres to create a unique sound that is both exhilarating and reflective. Focused on themes of queerness and heartbreak, each track explores the raw emotions that come along with these lived experiences, delivering a personal and poignant message at every turn—newfound feminism in vulnerability and gender fluidity; newfound femininity in humour and the fear of being alone.


New album Nothing Clever, Just Feelings is released 8th September 2023 via Venn Records

Live Dates:
11.08.23 - Winchester, UK - Boomtown
18.08.23 - Somerset, UK - ArcTanGent
08.09.23 - Brighton, Green Door Store
15.09.23 - Sofia, BG - Wrong Fest
12.10.23 - Manchester, Beyond The Music
02.11.23 - Leeds, Oporto
03.11.23 - Glasgow, Hug & Pint
23.11.23 - Southampton, Joiners
24.11.23 - Bristol, Rough Trade
29.11.23 - London, Lexington

CLT DRP are:

Annie - Vocals
Scott - Guitar
Daphne - Drums

CLT DRP online:

https://www.facebook.com/CLTDRP/ 
https://www.instagram.com/cltdrp/ 
https://soundcloud.com/cltdrp 
https://twitter.com/CLTDRP3

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Formed in 2017, CLT DRP released their rave-reviewed instant classic debut album Without The Eyes on Small Pond Records in August 2020 to a surge of press and radio support from BBC Radio 1, BBC 6music, Radio X, and many more.

Leading to support slots with some of the most vital and exciting alternative bands on the live circuit including JOHN, Saint Agnes, Clipping, Svalbard, Witch Fever, Heriot, Tokky Horror, De Staat and Warmduscher, their early success saw the band appear at a host of festivals including Strangeforms, PORTALS, Tredfest and more.

CLT DRP’s subsequent 2021 standalone single ‘Ownership’ picked up praise from Kerrang! Magazine, was made John Kennedy’s X-Posure Hot One on Radio X, and also enjoyed support from Spotify’s The Punk List, Fresh Finds: Rock, and Post Punk 2k playlists.

By 2022 the band were being hailed as one of the most abrasive, innovative new artists in the UK, and most-recent singles ‘TORX’ and ‘Aftermath’ saw them collaborate with New York’s FLOSSING (Brace Yourself Records)—landing hot on the Radio X Xposure Evening Playlist, the material marked a further evolution of their eclectic, experimental approach to fusing electronic and punk music in boundary breaking fashion.

Forthcoming new album Nothing Clever, Just Feeling’s lead single ‘NEW BOY’ and title track ‘Nothing Clever, Just Feelings’ were released earlier this year and picked up support from Kerrang! Magazine, Total Guitar, Guitar World, UPSET, Louder Than War, Noizze, Get In Her Ears, Loud Women and more. 

Radio support has been rolling in for the new material from Marc Riley, Tom Robinson and Steve Lamacq at BBC 6music, John Kennedy at Radio X, Jamz Supernova on The Selector, and Melita Dennett at BBC introducing.

Streaming platforms have been equally enthusiastic about new material from the trio, with support from Spotify’s official Misfits 2.0 and All New Punk playlists, Amazon’s Breakthrough Rock, and Deezer’s ASAP Rock.

The band have recently appeared alongside Alice Glass and Tokky Horror and put in some typically chaotic and turbo-charged live appearances at Takedown Festival and The Great Escape, recently announcing a run of UK and German summer live dates and festival appearances including ArcTanGent, Best Kept Secret (NL), and Wrong Fest (Bulgaria) with further live dates TBA (see below for listings).