Atlanta-based indie rock/ alternative artist Girlpuppy aka Becca Harvey have revealed her new single “Champ”, alongside a music video.
“Champ” bursts forth with a wall of fuzzy guitars, and finds girlpuppy drawing inspiration from Liz Phair, My Bloody Valentine, and Alvvays among others. The was produced by Alex Farrar (Wednesday, MJ Lenderman, Indigo De Souza, Snail Mail, Waxahatchee), and according to girlpuppy, is the “older sister” to previous single “Wish” which appeared on her 2022 debut full-length, When I’m Alone.
Speaking about it, girlpuppy shares:
“‘It’s happening again, you don’t want to be my friend’ is about once again going through a random friend breakup and never knowing why. It’s basically a plea that no matter how much this friend ignores me and shows me that they don’t want me in their life, I still try because I loved our friendship.”
The Benni Shumlin and Augie Voss-directed video, stars girlpuppy during a boxing match. Girlpuppy shares:
“The idea for the ‘Champ’ music video came super easily for me. ‘Champ’ is all about feeling like a loser in a friendship you so desperately want to save. I bought the boxing shorts with ‘girlpuppy’ embroidered on them on Etsy months before we filmed the video, because I knew I’d want the video to be boxing themed.”
“Benni and Augie had a perfect treatment for it and it was so fun getting to work with them. I also recruited my friend Chris Black from my favorite podcast How Long Gone to play my deadbeat coach, my bestie Merian from the band Suzy Clue to play my formidable opponent, my partner, Miles, to play her hot shot coach, and our friend Zack to play the ref. I also had plenty of my friends to play spectators in the crowd around the ring. It was so fun to work with all of my friends and get all fake bloody and get a nice workout in.”
Benni Shumlin and Augie Voss share the following:
“Such a pleasure to work with girlpuppy on the first visual for her sophomore album. girlpuppy had a clear concept – to dive into the classic visual world of a boxing match. We had a ball putting a fun campy twist on it, leaning into the backroom betting, broadcast TV, and blood of fight night with a sprinkle of ‘90s inspiration. Like if Rocky Balboa loved glitter and listened to PJ Harvey before the big match? There we go…it’s Indie-Rock-y…(sorry!).”
Get the track here and watch the clip below.
Photo courtesy of Captured Tracks
