Bedroom Rebellion: Art Pop’s Raw and Radiant “Teenage Scum”

If you’ve ever felt like a misfit with too many thoughts and nowhere to put them, Teenage Scum by Art Pop might just become your new anthem. This track is messy in all the right ways, an indie-rock catharsis carved straight from the Grossenbacher brothers’ childhood bedroom in Austin. Self-produced, recorded on the fly between college departures and emotional growing pains, the song pulses with that rare, intimate urgency only DIY music can deliver.

Max and Miles channel their heroes, LCD Soundsystem, Car Seat Headrest, Radiohead without ever feeling derivative. Instead, they forge something uniquely theirs: sharp, scrappy, and brimming with teenage angst that actually means something. You can hear the frustration boiling over in the fuzzed-out guitars, feel the loneliness in the deliberate lo-fi texture, and sense a kind of rebellious sincerity that lingers after the last note fades.

But it’s not all storm and stress. There’s a strange, exhilarating joy here too a sense of freedom in refusing to conform, in leaning into the mess instead of cleaning it up. As a preview of their upcoming LP This Is Art Pop, this single doesn’t just make a promise, it makes a statement.

Teenage Scum is loud, unpolished, and bracingly honest. And that’s what makes it beautiful. Turn it up, and let the kids howl.