Brighton’s favourite electro-punk troublemakers CLT DRP are back and they mean business. The feminist trio have dropped explosive new single What Is She For? — out now via all good DSPs — and it’s exactly the kind of genre-blurring, rule-smashing statement we’ve come to expect from one of the UK underground’s most vital acts.
🎧 Stream ‘WHAT IS SHE FOR?’ here
So What Is She For, Exactly?
First things first — this is the opening shot of a larger body of work still to be revealed, and what a way to kick things off. It’s the band’s first new material since 2024 standalone single Until You Showed Me, which earned serious love from Lauren Laverne and the BBC 6Music crew. What Is She For? picks up right where that momentum left off and then some.
Produced and mixed by long-time collaborator Ben Hampson (Lambrini Girls, DITZ), the track continues CLT DRP’s ongoing deconstruction of traditional gender roles and genre constraints — heavier in some places, more electronic in others, and sharper than ever in its songwriting. It’s the sound of a band who’ve been on the road, absorbing everything, and coming back with something refined.
Vocalist Annie Dorrett puts it best:
“This single is a not so subtle protest to the endless requirements you have to meet as a DIY AFAB fronted band. Our next piece of work is an extremely diverse collection of music. We wanted our first single back to show another side of us that perhaps our audience hasn’t heard yet. What Is She For? displays more objections and questions regarding classic gender roles, even more so than our previous work. Sonically it’s more mature and fine tuned, while the production still emulates the fresh energy we have playing live.”
What the Press Are Saying
In case you needed any more convincing, here’s what the critics have been saying about CLT DRP:
- “One of my favourite discoveries of 2025” — Lauren Laverne, BBC 6Music
- “An audacious voice…one of the freshest albums to spring from the UK underground this year.” — Kerrang! [KKKK]
- “A huge leap forwards…both exhilarating and reflective – and it will be utterly thrilling to hear live” — CLASH [8/10]
- “An absolute belter of a follow up…CLT DRP are looking to take the scene by storm” — Noizze [9/10]
- “The real deal – fresh, unique, and a step forward for the whole alternative music scene” — The Sleeping Shaman
- “Strange and brutal EDM-flavoured punk” — GIGWISE [5/5]
- “The sound of chaos harnessed” — UPSET [4/5]
- “This stuff is fabulous” — Louder Than War
Fresh Off the Road, Back On the Festivals
The past year has seen CLT DRP out on tour supporting Bob Vylan and Lambrini Girls on their UK headline runs — not a bad school to be studying in. Now, with new music locked and loaded, they’re heading out to festival stages in 2026. Here’s where you can catch them:
- 📍 11 Apr — Homegrown Festival, Brighton
- 📍 7 May — FOCUS Wales, Wrexham
- 📍 5 Jun — Bulletproof Festival, Earth, London
- 📍 31 Jul — RADAR Festival, Manchester
More dates TBA. Tickets and info over at cltdrp.com.
The Backstory (In Case You’re New Here)
CLT DRP — Annie Dorrett (vocals, they/them), Scott Reynolds (guitar, he/him), and Daphne Koskeridou (drums, she/her) — have been pushing at the walls of punk and electronic music since forming in Brighton in 2017. Their debut album ‘Without The Eyes’ landed on Small Pond Records in 2020 to widespread critical love and serious radio support from BBC Radio 1, BBC 6Music, and Radio X.
Their 2023 album ‘Nothing Clever, Just Feelings’, released on Venn Records (home to Bob Vylan, Witch Fever, Meryl Streek), cemented their reputation as one of the UK’s most compelling and original acts. Recorded at Shaken Oak Studios in Oxford and produced by Alex Gordon (The Cure, Tigercub, Sea Power, Blood Red Shoes), it’s a record that digs deep into queerness, heartbreak, gender fluidity, and the messy beauty of being human. Kerrang! called it “one of the freshest albums to spring from the UK underground in some time” — and they weren’t wrong.
Festival slots at ArcTanGent, 2000 Trees, The Great Escape, Boomtown and Best Kept Secret (NL), support runs with Gary Numan, and a sold-out hometown show at Green Door Store later — CLT DRP have been doing the work. What Is She For? is the next chapter, and we’re very much here for it.
🎧 Stream ‘WHAT IS SHE FOR?’ now
🎸 Stream ‘Nothing Clever, Just Feelings’
📺 Watch ‘Until You Showed Me’
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