PREMIERE: Tetchy Unveil “Mommy” Music Video

Last month, after wrapping up a tour with Ekko Astral, New York four-piece Tetchy (Maggie Denning, Jesse French, Kaitlin Pelkey and Ransom McCafferty) released “Mommy,” the follow-up single to their January EP All In My Head. The track, a crushing, 90-second wall of noise that begins with a millisecond of soft feedback before erupting into a hardcore swell of gnarly, guttural howls, was one of our favorite songs of August, and Denning screaming “I just want a hot girl to call me mommy” hasn’t left our heads since. French’s guitar keeps the score with quick, mangled riffs that’ll split your spine right down the middle. Denning growls as “Mommy” simmers for a few seconds and they pose one swift, battered question to all of us: “Why does it feel like such a goddamn imposition to wanna be a person who feels good in their body?” When the band immediately dive back into a thrashing arrangement, the question becomes rhetorical and “Mommy” becomes a stroke of power.

Now, Tetchy have dropped the music video for “Mommy” and, just like its source material, it doesn’t disappoint. It’s sexy, it’s gross, it’s glitchy and it’s deviously hypnotic. Whether it’s Denning eating spoonfuls of ice cream out of a toilet she’s just cleaned, or her singing from inside a washing machine, the visuals are just as chaotic, intoxicating and skull-splitting as Tetchy’s signature riptide of disemboweling rock ‘n’ roll.

“We wanted the music video for ‘Mommy’ to feel like a chaotic little fever dream… Like the fantasy of a fantasy you’re forced to face head on,” the band says. “There’s yearning and there’s tension. It’s hot but it’s uncomfortable. Desire and repression are battling it out within, when all you want to do is scream ‘I’m gay!’ and take a bite. We also just wanted to get messy and eat a bunch of ice cream.”

Watch the music video—directed and edited by Denning, recorded and mixed by French, shot by John “Burgundy” Clouse and Sam Blieden, and mastered by Brandon Vaccaro—for “Mommy” below.