Fur Trapper Twisted Baroque Art Pop Into a Claymation Havisham-esque Descent Down the Rabbit Hole in ‘Rot for Spite’ –

If MTV still played music, the Claymation official music video for Fur Trapper’s latest single, Rot for Spite, would become an iconic component in alt-pop’s zeitgeist. The baroque art-pop aesthetics wrapped around the track move with the same twisted elegance as the visuals, giving the whole release the kind of avant-garde charge that feels pulled from a fevered cabinet of curiosities. As the ingenuity unfurls as though every note has eked from a coin-operated mechanism, the atmosphere turns wickedly ornate, stunning in its strangeness, and irresistible for anyone who craves pop pushed into the fringe territories once occupied by Legendary Pink Dots, Emilie Autumn, and the Dresden Dolls.

Go down the rabbit hole with Rot for Spite, and you’ll lose yourself within a decadently dark tunnel of escapism. Fur Trapper digs into the psychology of being slighted with an honesty sharp enough to cut through any sugarcoating. The way she explores how wounding experiences can trap you in a self-built cell where misanthropy becomes both a prison and a remedy gives the track its emotional backbone. Havisham has nothing on Fur Tapper.

Behind the Fur Trapper moniker is Lisa Rieffel, whose creative world-building grows more tactile and surreal with each release. Rot for Spite arrives with a fully handcrafted Claymation universe shaped by her longtime collaborator and sister, Carla Rieffel, whose lifelong obsession with clay gave the project its eerie physicality. As Fur Trapper continues building these shadow-soaked worlds, she’s becoming one of the most intriguing alt-pop auteurs of the moment.

Rot for Spite is now available on all major streaming platforms; for the full experience, watch the official music video on YouTube before adding the single to your Spotify playlists.

Review by Amelia Vandergast