Tea Eater is a New York City-based, psychedelic, art punk band fronted by Tarra Thiessen of Gustaf and Sharkmuffin. Tea Eater has built their reputation on delivering killer live performances, off-the-cuff lyrics, and a strong DIY ethos. Their upcoming album takes these defining traits to new heights while delving into some of their quirky obsessions, like butter and bugs. Through this record, they explore what it means to be the villain in someone else’s story – whether by accident or design.

“‘The Waffle Song’ is about a mean car salesman from Mars who loves waffles. One day he chooses not to be awful and rewards himself with a waffle. He only trusts waffles because he believes everyone is terrible,” says Tarra of the new track.

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‘Double,’ the first offering from their forthcoming LP, produced and mixed by Drew Vandenburg (Bambara/Faye Webster/Of Montreal), came out of the jaws of lockdown. After a cross-country drive from LA to Lake Placid with members of Gustaf in March 2020, Thiessen submerged herself in meditation, Twin Peaks: The Return, and the expected existential crisis. This resulted in a song with plenty of 90s chord terror, girl group harmonies, and just enough surf rock shredding to tempt Tarantino to stick it in his next soundtrack.

The music video for ‘Double,’ directed, shot and edited by Gustaf’s Tine Hill, returns the band to Lake Placid with a decidedly Lynchian premise: Thiessen on a mission to kill her doppelganger. Written in the moments when social media became the town square, Thiessen thought on personas—or doubles—we create for ourselves. And, you know, the importance of not taking yourself too seriously. “These versions of ourselves tend to make us get in our own way,” Thiessen says. “By shedding our doubles and integrating the icky parts back into ourselves we’re able to become more whole and present people.”

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