Stockholm four-piece Clutter embrace the strange and playful side of technology on ‘Robot’, the third single from their forthcoming debut album Sugar Rush. Built around a fictional romance between a girl and a machine, the track turns digital love into something fuzzy, chaotic and surprisingly catchy, offering a tongue-in-cheek take on our increasingly complicated relationship with technology.

A scrappy guitar riff and choppy instrumentation give ‘Robot’ plenty of garage-rock bite, while tinny, robotic vocal effects introduce a strange futuristic quality beneath the fuzz. The result is a wonderfully wonky collision of fuzzy guitars and retro-futuristic electronics, with a slight Yeah Yeah Yeahs-esque edge. The humour comes through just as strongly as the distortion, particularly in the wonderfully ridiculous declarations of falling for something artificial. Accompanied by a brilliantly fitting stop-motion animation, ‘Robot’ feels like it has wandered in from some strange analogue future where falling in love with a machine is perfectly normal.

Clutter describe ‘Robot’ as “a playful take on the rise of technology” that is both a criticism and a joke, with the distorted and choppy instrumentation deliberately blurring the line between guitars and electronics. It is that sense of not taking itself too seriously that makes the track so much fun; underneath all the fuzz and robotic interference is a genuinely infectious little love song for the digital age.