Reckling is one of many projects cobbled together from various factions of Los Angeles’ long-thriving garage punk scene, boasting members of Together Pangea (Erik Jimenez) and FIDLAR (the one who can’t surf), as well as Paramore’s touring drummer Joey Mullen. But it’s Kelsey Reckling who lends the project more than just her name—each song on the group’s latest EP Human Nature is shaped by the direction her lyrics and vocals (perfectly spanning the conventional punk gamut of apathetic to sneering) lead the blistering recordings in.
With the EP on the verge of its three-month anniversary this weekend, the band is revealing a new Ambar Navarro–directed visual for its opener “Spitter” which, in addition to featuring scenes where the camera lens gets bombed with loogies, features Reckling dressed as a fly, performing the track in front of a crowd of flies. “In 2019, Reckling played a Halloween show and I dressed up as a house fly,” Reckling explains, noting that the track evolved from an earlier recording. “So when Ambar saw that costume, the idea for the video sort of came together then: she wanted me to be dressed as the fly again playing a show for a bunch of fly girls while this mean girl chases me around and tries to kill me.”
As for the spitting theme in the song and video, she adds: “The song is actually about a girl who bullied me when I first moved to LA. She literally spit on me at a party once.”
Watch Kelsey get bullied with a fly swatter below—and if you’re in LA, celebrate three months of Human Nature with the band at Lodge Room tomorrow night along with The Paranoyds and Kills Birds. Find more info here.
