Lande Hekt - ＂Whiskey＂

What this video is

Released September 14, 2020 as the lead single from Lande Hekt's debut solo album 'Going to Hell' (Get Better Records, January 22, 2021), 'Whiskey' emerged at a moment of heightened visibility for queer voices in UK indie and punk music. Hekt, known as the frontwoman of Muncie Girls, used the song and video to publicly come out as gay, marking the album as — in her own words — 'the first time I'm releasing anything…

Why it matters

A landmark single in early-2020s queer UK indie-folk-punk, 'Whiskey' exemplifies the confessional singer-songwriter mode that bridged the politically charged DIY punk tradition of Muncie Girls with the intimate acoustic vulnerability of contemporaries such as Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker. The…

The director

Martin Wisniewska, known online as 'gingerdope', is a UK-based visual artist and filmmaker who served as a longtime friend and visual collaborator of Lande Hekt. Credited as director, editor, and producer on the 'Whiskey' video. Also credited as photographer…