Back in the early ’90s, revered American poet George Clinton used House Party to utter one of the greatest movie lines in cinema history: “Yeah I did it. Might cry two tears in a bucket, fuck it. Let’s take it to the stage.”
We’ve carried that quote with us over the past 35 years, flicking it off our lips whenever necessary. And we are now applying it here as English newcomers PUNCHBAG throw down an unhinged indie-rave of a single called “Fuck It.” It’s the South London sibling duo of Clara and Anders Bach’s debut for Mute, and it’s one hell of an introduction.
All told, the 2:18-long “Fuck It” is a dizzying spell of pop and rock alchemy, an anthemic techno sermon that has us popping pills in our favorite late-’00s warehouse space and ignoring all threats of coming morning. “We might as well just say go fuck it!” exclaims Clara in perhaps the most appropriate chorus of this miserable shit-fed 2025. “’Cuz we’re all gonna die, die, die!”
The high-energy track dropped yesterday (February 10), complete with a colorful video directed by Joe Gainsborough, with creative direction by Abi Ford. Watch it a hundred times over below.
Clara comes correct with more: “It’s not nihilistic. It’s more like, we only have so much time, so do the thing you want to do. Kiss the person you want to kiss, say that thing you want to say.”
And take that shit to the stage.
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