CLT DRP

An audacious voice…one of the freshest albums to spring from the UK underground this year.” - Kerrang! Magazine [KKKK]
“A huge leap forwards...both exhilarating and reflective – and it will be utterly thrilling to hear live” - CLASH [8/10]
“An absolute belter of a follow up...CLT DRP are looking to take the scene by storm” - Noizze [9/10]
“CLT DRP are the real deal - fresh, unique, and a step forward for the whole alternative music scene” - The Sleeping Shaman
“Catching ears and turning heads with their frenetic and often confrontational music” - Atwood Magazine
"Brighton's best kept secret...glitchy, twitchy songs of female empowerment" - DORK
“The UK electro-punks throw the rulebook out the window” - Guitar World
“Strange and brutal EDM-flavoured punk” - GIGWISE
"The sound of chaos harnessed" - UPSET
“This stuff is fabulous” - Louder Than War

Brighton-based feminist electro-punk trio CLT DRP continue an unstoppable string of exceptional releases with another brand new single in the form of gender-fluid love song ‘Until You Showed Me’, set for release on 28th February 2024 via Venn Records.

Recorded at Brighton Electric, produced by Alex Gordon, and mastered by Tom Hall, ‘Until You Showed Me’ is the first new material from the band since the 2023 release of their second album Nothing Clever, Just Feelings which is out now via Venn Records (Bob Vylan, Witch Fever, Meryl Streek).

Fresh from a run of French headline dates, the band are also delighted to announce a select handful of UK headline dates plus their debut run of Irish shows alongside 2024 festival appearances at Strangeforms, Reverie, Noizze Fest, Ceremony, Brighten The Corners, 2000 Trees and more.

Tickets are on sale now with Irish tour dates on sale Friday 1st March, see below for listings.

Commenting on the track, vocalist Annie Dorrett says: “Femininity is a word that has haunted me my whole life, whereas Masculinity is something that I’ve longed for. ‘Until You Showed Me’ is a love song to my current partner for making my gender fluidity something that they nourish and make room for rather than dismiss or ignore. It’s no secret that a lot of people feel the need to lean into a gender role in order to gain respect or normalcy and if they mess with anything outside the binary it can seem threatening. Funnily enough I’ve found myself playing with my femininity a lot more now that I’ve found comfort in my skin again. This song is a little ode to the queers and anyone who strays from the binary in any way small or large. Break the wall from either side, that’s how we get ‘em to listen.”

The track comes with an official video directed and edited by Sam Morris at Avocado Baby Film and featuring Oli Hopkins, El Murphy, Mikey Squire, Daphne Koskeridou, Annie Dorrett, Erin Munn, Phoebe Bentham, and Gaëlle Croguennec.

The band’s latest album Nothing Clever, Just Feelings was recorded at Shaken Oak Studios in Oxford over the course of a week in March 2022, and produced by Alex Gordon (The Cure, Tigercub, Sea Power, Blood Red Shoes). With the studio based in a rural setting on a farm, guitarist Scott Reynolds enjoyed a morning trail run before starting each day, and the band cooked family-style for each other every day.

Hailed as “one of the freshest albums to spring from the UK underground in some time” by Kerrang! Magazine and reaffirming CLT DRP’s unique position at the cutting edge of electronic, noise-infused music, Nothing Clever, Just Feelings seamlessly merges various genres to create a unique sound that is both exhilarating and reflective.

Focused on themes of queerness and heartbreak, each track explores the raw emotions that come along with these lived experiences, delivering a personal and poignant message at every turn—newfound feminism in vulnerability and gender fluidity; newfound femininity in humour and the fear of being alone.

‘Until You Showed Me’ is released 28th February 2024 via Venn Records

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Formed in 2017, CLT DRP released their rave-reviewed instant classic debut album Without The Eyes on Small Pond Records in August 2020 to a surge of press and radio support from BBC Radio 1, BBC 6music, Radio X, and many more.

Leading to support slots with some of the most vital and exciting alternative bands on the live circuit including JOHN, Saint Agnes, Clipping, Svalbard, Witch Fever, Heriot, Tokky Horror, De Staat and Warmduscher, their early success saw the band appear at a host of festivals including Strangeforms, PORTALS, Tredfest and more.

CLT DRP’s subsequent 2021 standalone single ‘Ownership’ picked up praise from Kerrang! Magazine, was made John Kennedy’s X-Posure Hot One on Radio X, and also enjoyed support from Spotify’s The Punk List, Fresh Finds: Rock, and Post Punk 2k playlists.

By 2022 the band were being hailed as one of the most abrasive, innovative new artists in the UK, and most-recent singles ‘TORX’ and ‘Aftermath’ saw them collaborate with New York’s FLOSSING (Brace Yourself Records)—landing hot on the Radio X Xposure Evening Playlist, the material marked a further evolution of their eclectic, experimental approach to fusing electronic and punk music in boundary breaking fashion.

Forthcoming new album Nothing Clever, Just Feeling’s lead single ‘NEW BOY’ and title track ‘Nothing Clever, Just Feelings’ were released earlier this year and picked up support from Kerrang! Magazine, Total Guitar, Guitar World, UPSET, Louder Than War, Noizze, Get In Her Ears, Loud Women and more. 

Radio support has been rolling in for the new material from Marc Riley, Tom Robinson and Steve Lamacq at BBC 6music, John Kennedy at Radio X, Jamz Supernova on The Selector, and Melita Dennett at BBC introducing.

Streaming platforms have been equally enthusiastic about new material from the trio, with support from Spotify’s official Misfits 2.0 and All New Punk playlists, Amazon’s Breakthrough Rock, and Deezer’s ASAP Rock.

The band have recently appeared alongside Alice Glass and Tokky Horror and put in some typically chaotic and turbo-charged live appearances at Takedown Festival and The Great Escape, recently announcing a run of UK and German summer live dates and festival appearances including ArcTanGent, Best Kept Secret (NL), and Wrong Fest (Bulgaria) with further live dates TBA (see below for listings).