Naarm/Melbourne trio CLAMM have just released ‘No Idea’, a shredding new single that doubles down on the band’s rawest instincts – fast, furious, and zero facade. It’s the second taste of their upcoming third album ‘Serious Acts’, out May 30 via Meat Machine Records, and it smashes through you like an elbow in a pit where no one’s playing nice.
Since their 2020 debut ‘Beseech Me’, CLAMM have carved out a reputation for doing punk the hard and fast way: jagged riffs, shouted truths, and a genuine sense of urgency. 2022’s ‘Care’ followed with sharper edges and bigger stages, and their 2024 ‘Disembodiment’ EP hinted at more chaos to come. With ‘Serious Acts’, they’re going to blow the doors off.
Built around a looping, jangly guitar riff and packed with too many words to breathe properly, ‘No Idea’ is like a panic attack in protest form. Frontman Jack Summers sounds like he’s trying to fit a manifesto into two minutes, spiraling through verses about structural injustice, class exploitation, and the suffocating feeling of not knowing how to change any of it. “It’s filled with lyrics and hard to sing,” he admits. “There’s so many words I felt like I was rapping when we were recording it.”
CLAMM have always made music with a cause. Their writing process is built around shared frustrations and ideas that morph into explosive outbursts – it’s honest music made for and by people who are exhausted by the state of things. It’s angry, yes, but it’s also community-minded – made for those who come to shows to scream and sweat and feel seen. “I think with our music sometimes there’s sort of a celebration that happens where people get a space or community and get to connect over the fact that most of them are in agreeance that shit is fucked up”, Summers says.
CLAMM hit the UK and Europe this May and June for a run of headline shows before heading across Australia in August. If ‘No Idea’ is any indicator of what ‘Serious Acts’ is packing, this tour is going to be all catharsis, no compromise.
Photo credit: Oscar O’Shea
