South London sibling duo PUNCHBAG (Clara and Anders Bach) announce new EP I Am Obsessed, out April 10 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, available to pre-order now.
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.
