Premiere: Wetsuit Share New Single “Clovers”

Debut Album Sugar, I am Drained Out August seventeenth through Substitute Scene Data

Aug 10, 2023

By Caleb Campbell

Pictures by Sydney Tate

Later this month, Brooklyn indie rock quartet Wetsuit are set to debut their first full-length album, Sugar, I’m Drained, arriving August seventeenth through Substitute Scene Data. Shaped by singer/songwriter and guitarist Allison Becker, the band has its origins as a quarantine bed room undertaking however has since expanded in dimension and scope, with Becker joined by guitarist Anders Nils, bassist Paul DeSilva, and drummer Stephen Cadieux.

Collectively, the band leans right into a lush and jangly aesthetic, arriving on the crossroads of surf-tinged indie rock and gauzy dream pop whereas retaining Becker’s diaristic songwriting voice, by no means straying too removed from the band’s bed room origins. Forward of the album’s launch the band have already shared a pair of recent singles, “Native Movie star” and “Twiggy,” and at the moment they’re again with a 3rd and remaining single, “Clovers,” premiering with Underneath the Radar.

“Clovers” is a piece of winding indie pop bliss, touring in the identical vein as Indigo de Souza or Alvvays. Nils’ guitar traces have an ephemeral, dreamy high quality, shining vivid amongst the regular sway of the rhythm part. In distinction, Becker’s voice is robust and hanging, infusing the monitor’s quiet moments with wistful longing and its hazy climax with blooms of rippling cathartic weight. It’s a easy mixture, however one the band makes use of to nice impact. In the meantime, Becker’s lyrics are candy and welcoming, discovering beautiful poeticism in small moments of devotion: “Cowl me in roses / Discover me when the bar closes / Sew me again collectively / Paint me shades of blue.”

Becker says of the monitor, “‘Clovers’ is a love tune. It was Summer time 2021 and my companion Anders and I had been residing collectively for a couple of yr. I used to be feeling a lot gratitude and contentment in my life, having constructed this secure relationship and residential collectively and watching it blossom. Life simply felt so cozy and good like taking an enormous nap in a subject of clovers. I wished to write down a tune that wrapped you in gooey, cozy, fuzzy heat, like pulling you below a blanket of clovers.

With Wetsuit I sought out to show that you simply don’t have to be a musical genius to write down good songs. My hero Sharon van Etten described writing songs as looking for melodies inside chords and as soon as that clicked with me it unlocked a confidence in songwriting I by no means knew I had. I wrote Clovers with simply 2 chords and harnessed that simplicity as a superpower, not a limitation.”

Beckers continues, saying of the video, “Earlier than I began writing music and fashioned my band, knitting and crocheting was my most important inventive outlet. It was an enormous a part of my life. I spent all my free time fulfilling orders from my Etsy store and making items to promote at craft festivals.

‘Clovers’ is all about being comfy and safe in a relationship for the primary time. I knew I wished to tie in that cozy, squishy tender imagery, and had an concept that I might use crochet dolls to symbolize my transition from one inventive outlet to a different, from knitter to musician.

I made the enormous hood you see within the video, however crochet dolls aren’t my specialty. For these, I discovered this superb crocheter Jeri Thompson on Etsy. She blew us away and even stunned us by making a complete drum equipment with out me asking.”

Take a look at the tune and video beneath, directed by Paul DeSilva. Sugar I’m Drained is out all over the place on August seventeenth through Substitute Scene Data.