PREMIERE: Bukowski Grapple With Fairweather Friends In New Single & Video 'Clueless'

Ascendant Melbourne punks Bukowski release their new single, Clueless, through Perth-based Penultimate Records this week, and ahead of its landing have shared its accompanying video.

One of the band's oldest songs — and the first they recorded with producer Jack Newlyn — Clueless has come a long way since its early days, the band even deciding to omit it from their debut EP, grow up. give up. let go., to allow it more room to grow.

"We thought it needed a little more work and that's why it didn't make the EP," frontman James Karagiozis said in a statement.

"The song is about stepping back and realising that someone you thought you knew isn't actually that person while coming to terms with the fact that all the times you defended them were all for nothing."

The video was directed and produced by Mitchell Chamberlain, setting live performance and tour footage to the tune's raw, anthemic punch.

Bukowski are set to announce a tour in support of the single in the near future but, at any rate, you'll be able to catch them at this November's Not Fest in Melbourne, along with the likes of US fly-ins Bong Mountain plus local faves Sleep Talk, Press Club, Paper Thin and heaps more.

See the band's Facebook page to keep tabs on what they're up to in the coming months and beyond.