As the title of their new All in My Head EP may lead you to believe, Tetchy are a band that’s fascinated with the way our exterior world reflects the feelings pinging around inside our brains. As heard on the closing track “Psychosomatic” from that release (a song which also lends its climactic refrain to the EP title), our interior worlds are often a chaotic place, as reflected in the song’s emotionally drained intro expanding into shrieking guitar feedback a few minutes in, matched in volume by vocalist Maggie Denning’s throat-shredding exhalations.
To further that dichotomy, the band is sharing a new visual for the track which sees Denning’s immediate surroundings fluctuate from a tranquil sleeping space to those same quarters buried in laundry—and Denning herself buried in a pile of trash bags. “This dichotomy felt really right for the track’s push and pull between a soft grief and a fury that’s flying off the handle,” she explains of the clip, which also features an array of multimedia experiments in stop motion, claymation, and other visual effects from a team of artists. “It’s about feeling alone and trapped in your body, in your sickness, and in a world where nobody believes you.”
Adds the video’s director Nick Clark Tanner, “A pit of isolation, illness, grief, anger, and loneliness. It represents the weight of the moments where your feelings inside and out grow so much larger than the walls that hold them.”
Check out the video below, and catch Tetchy on their tour with Big Girl in March (including a stop at SXSW) at the dates listed on their IG.
