CLOWNSDoes It Matter? (Single)

“Kill the alarm/I’m stealing a car/From my arsehole neighbour’s front yard/Gonna drive it/Through the door of the casino…” – Clowns vocalist Stevie Williams chants over punchy drums and a catchy, creeping bassline.

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The first taste of Clowns since the release of their fourth studio album (2019’s Nature/Nurture), Does It Matter? “is a song about breaking the law.”

“We all do it sometimes–and if you say you don’t then chances are you are a liar or a coward,” the Melbourne punk-rockers declare in their presser.

To conclude each chorus, Williams speak-sings a descending melody, “NO!/IT DOESN’T REally ma-tter,” before encouraging unity, “Let’s just do it together!”

Clowns’s latest high-energy single boasts instant-singalong choruses, a bonus thrashing instrumental breakdown and bassist/vocalist Hanny Tilbrook delivering a breezy vocal hook: “Even though time is in-fi-nite/I’m not thinking of the next minute.”

A more polished, almost pop-leaning sound for Clowns.

Then Does It Matter? closes out with showy guitar work that evokes the late, great Eddie Van Halen. These blistering riffs underscore repeated affirmations–“Does it matter?/It doesn’t ma-tter, NO!”–which just beg to be belted out en masse in a live setting.

To create Does It Matter?, this Melbourne punk-rock outfit worked with an outside songwriter, American songwriter/producer Matt Squire (Panic! At The Disco, Ariana Grande), for the first time. A more polished, almost pop-leaning sound for Clowns.

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Catch Clowns headlining Mansfield Rocks at Mansfield Tavern, QLD with LOSER, C.O.F.F.I.N, Total Pace, Something Something Explosion, BOYSCLUB, ANTY!, Blussh and The Wolston Butchers on Saturday 29th May.

Tickets available here.