A classic driving post-punk bassline forms the backbone, joined by angular guitars, flashes of jangly indie-pop and some lovely guitar harmonics through the middle. Despite that melting pot of sounds, ‘Nothing To Teach’ remains wonderfully loose and unbothered, settling into a bouncing groove and largely staying there. Yaël Dekker delivers the lyrics in a dry, conversational deadpan, with just enough of a sneer to sharpen the edges. Call-and-response moments add to the sermon-like quality before the repeated “you have nothing to teach me” drives the message home.

The accompanying video turns that same independent spirit into a charming DIY scrapbook, piecing together grainy handycam footage from touring, recording and life behind the scenes. Full of candid moments and the band generally goofing around, it feels less like a polished promotional video and more like a celebration of The Klittens simply doing things their own way.

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Switching between the perspectives of the passionately disaffected and cheerfully unbothered, ‘Have a Heart’ is about using apathy as a form of self-defence. “’Have A Heart’ was an easy song to start and a tougher one to finish. From the get-go the concept was clear: an indie song that ripples along with a rock ’n roll sort of strut. But where there’s ease I want chaos and my campaign for an unstructured noise part was born,” guitarist Winnie Conradi explains. “Someone once said about our very first single: ‘you think you know where you stand with The Klittens until they serve up a sonic curveball’ and I think we stayed true to that – throughout the entire album actually.”

Have A Heart paints a heavy picture with pastels. Both an accusation and a plea, the title speaks to the core of the album; feelings of powerlessness which we all experience in our lifetime and the way we fight against them. No matter the scale of your sense of helplessness, and however you react to it, whether its resistance or surrender, there’s a good chance there’s a track on this album you can relate to.

Have A Heart:

1. Have A Heart
2. Taxi
3. Interlude I
4. Zelda
5. Nothing To Teach
6. Triple Threat
7. Bank Account
8. Interlude II
9. Blue Hue: A Short Plea
10. Badlands
11. Their House
12. Fool Me Once
13. The Frame: A Short Complaint

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Following the irresistible ‘Universal Experience’ that landed in the Autumn, the band return with the off-kilter majesty of ‘Atlas’, their second single to land from Butter. With ‘Atlas’ the band takes a moment to reflect on the strange principle of promises, how can you speak on behalf of a future you? Insistent, playful and complete with a Sonic Youth-esque final third, all set to a melody that is equally inquisitive, ‘Atlas’ hopes to be hopeful with a hint of melancholy.

‘Atlas’ reflects on the strange nature of lifelong promises and asks if they can exist. The band’s vocalist Yaël Dekker says on the subject: “How do you know you’ll still want tomorrow what you want now? Let alone wanting it forever. How can you even say you will, when you have no idea who you’ll be then? Is a promise a feeling or a thought? Then what is more important in life, taking vows or keeping them?

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