Spike Fuck explores addiction and infatuation with unflinching honesty on “Body By Crystal"

Spike Fuck's newest single "Body By Crystal" is one of the more autobiographical tracks from the Smackwave EP, probing the blurred line between infatuation and friendship. "We became inseparable / We were like blood," Spike sings adoringly to her muse before unleashing the callow conclusion, "You were like the sister I never had / The one I wanna fuck."

Spike Fuck boasts some seriously swampy garage vibes, falling somewhere between '60s Lou Reed and '70s Johnny Thunders. While there's a clear love for New York's rock scene, the music is anything but derivative. “This song is really just my attempt at something reminiscent of a love-song,” says Spike Fuck, “that maybe turned out a bit more anti-love-song in the end.”

The newest Melbourne act to sign with Partisan Records (responsible for Cigarettes After Sex and Idles), Spike Fuck is on a trajectory similar to fellow Aussies like Courtney Barnett and Moaning Lisa, who've exploded out of their local bubble and onto the international scene.

“The film clip takes place in sunny Southern Italy,” explains Spike Fuck, “where we take you all on a trip through the winding streets of downtown Cefalu. This is the location where Aleister Crowley aka The Wickedest Man In The World, and his ragtag bunch of loveable cult followers lived for a period during the 1920s and did some let's say - interesting stuff - and where Crowley was soon after promptly exiled from Italy by Mussolini for said interesting stuff.”