Artist: Pelts
Title: Swimming
Format: Digital EP
Cat#: Fika1111
Release date: 10th Sep 2025
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Pelts are Cat, Louise and Eilidh, a Copenhagen based three-piece combining a playful mix of post-punk and minimalist riffs. Swimming is their debut EP, 4 direct powerful tracks that are bound to appeal to fans of Grass Widow or Electrelane.
“Lyrically, Cat’s always working through her neurosis”, the band explains, “but instrumentally, it’s all about screwing around and letting the collaboration between the three of us create our sound. We all have slightly different approaches to writing for each of our instruments (and sometimes each others’), which can end up creating some contrasts that swing between feeling disjointed and feeling harmonic. We try to embrace the tension and sit through it.”
The artwork and title reflect a fluid-like quality in the songs that comes from the simple setup of guitar, bass and drums playfully interacting with each other while also doing their own thing and sometimes playing their own little melody.
The EP’s title track Swimming sums up Pelts, combining the punchy and the weird, with a driving bass-line, the track slowly evolved with Cat bringing the vocal melodies and Louise fitting out the puzzle pieces with the guitar hooks. Eilidh adds that it’s “the song during which we found out how fast Cat can play the egg!”.
Recorded live with Christian Ankerstjerne in Vindmøllevej, Copenhagen in December 2024, the EP captures Pelts perfectly, pretty bare bones but playful, with the band fully embracing the available percussion and keeping the background screams from an early take on Stressed.
Video by Nik Vestberg.
The video for Swimming was filmed over a few hours on a sunny day in Copenhagen in August 2025. It was shot on a LomoKino camera, a simple, manual, 35mm film camera from Lomography designed to shoot short movies on standard 35mm film.
You crank a handle to expose multiple frames per frame of the film, which you then scan and line up to form a movie. Swimming is made up of 1257 frames, spread over eight rolls of severely damaged Kodak Ektachrome slide film, which expired in 1992.
The result is an antidote to HD perfection and AI-generated video.
Pelts is an Aries trio with roots in London’s DIY scene. The band consists of three friends who came together in Copenhagen after many years in various projects such as Molar, Fever Dream and local twee punks Enids. The Pelts name refers back to the animal associated with their shared star sign.
Pelts are:
Cat: drums + vox
Louise: guitar + vox
Eilidh: bass + vox
