Cream Premiere: Things Get Messy for Peachy in 'Fetish' [Fresh Vid]

Just as summer turned to fall, snare-tight punk/post-punk trio Peachy released their debut recording, a ferocious cassette EP called Squirt. Fighting patriarchal concepts is a common theme, and the record ends with a driving tune called "Fetish." Broadly speaking, the song looks at the differences between consensual roleplay as part of a sexual relationship and getting off on harassing others.

Today, we're very pleased to premiere the music video for the song, which singer-bassist Leah Miller directed, edited and performs in, along with singer-guitarist Rachel Warrick and several friends and accomplices. Miller also filmed much of the piece with help from Matt Taylor, and Rian Archer took on the bulk of styling and lighting duties. Both appear in the vid.

Above, watch as a quiet night of wine and card games gets transformed into a hair-raising evening of experimentation that might change the way you look at banana splits. (There's no nudity, so the vid isn't technically "not safe for work." All the same, you may want to save it for after work, unless your boss is as cool as mine.)

The video is lighthearted, but there's a serious underlying message.

“The song was written in a moment of excitement to explore consensual sexual activities with someone new,” says Miller in an email to the Cream. “However, after realizing that’s all that person ever talked about and seemed to want to do, I felt like I had become an object or a mother figure. It wasn’t fun anymore and upon bursting the bubble of our fetishisms, looking at the things we said or did didn’t seem sexy anymore, but really funny. 

“So, that's why the song plays almost as a joke at first," she continues, "mostly mocking every boy who has ever cat-called me or other people I’m with, texted me strange things, whether I've wanted them or not, or stopped in their tracks by the fact that they ‘like my shape, my ass, my look, my face, my whatever,’ and felt the need to tell me. It's purposefully repetitive, due to the automatic response that these things warrant.”

Give it a spin above, and grab a copy of Squirt at your favorite record store or via Bandcamp.