Girl and Girl - Mother

JUL 01 2024 · 12:00

Girl and Girl - Mother (2024) Director: Andy Freer & Dan Flood Era: Post-Punk Revival / Mid-2020s Indie Garage (2024) - Australian garage-rock underground intersects with Sub Pop's international indie infrastructure; analogue-leaning aesthetics meet DIY puppet theatre in the streaming era. High curatorial value as a documented collaboration between an emerging internationally-signed Australian garage-rock band and one of Australia's most storied puppet-theatre companies. The video is a rare primary artefact at the intersection of two distinct Australian performance traditions, released in the same year as the band's Sub Pop debut, and confirmed by the label itself, making it a reliable anchor point for research into both the band's career and Snuff Puppets' expanded cultural footprint in the mid-2020s. Context: Released March 25, 2024, as a pre-release single from Girl and Girl's Sub Pop debut album Call a Doctor (May 24, 2024), 'Mother' arrives at a moment when Australian post-punk and garage rock is experiencing significant international re-evaluation, with acts like Wet Leg, Amyl and the Sniffers, and now Girl and Girl bridging regional DIY scenes to global indie infrastructure. The video's use of Snuff Puppets, a Melbourne-based company with over 30 years of international touring history, connects Brisbane/Gold Coast punk energy to a longer Melbourne avant-garde performance tradition. The song's subject matter (the evolving adult relationship between a child and parent) and its puppet-theatre treatment position the video within a broader 2020s trend of indie acts using non-literal, artistically ambitious visual strategies to amplify emotionally personal material. Director notes: The 'Mother' video was directed by Andy Freer and Dan Flood of Snuff Puppets, as confirmed by Sub Pop Records and Our Culture magazine. The collaboration represents a natural alignment between Girl and Girl's emotionally raw garage-punk aesthetic and Snuff Puppets' tradition of using large-scale handmade puppetry to engage with human themes. Snuff Puppets is described by Sub Pop as 'internationally acclaimed,' and their visual language, shamelessly handmade, tactile, and physically theatrical, maps directly onto the video's muted warm palette and moderate, contemplative editing pace. The choice to commission a puppet-theatre company rather than a conventional music video director signals a deliberate artistic positioning away from slick commercial production and toward durational, craft-centred storytelling.