Today Brooklyn/Salt Lake City-band LAPÊCHE is excited to share the new music video for “Double Knotted,” a standout single featured on their acclaimed new album, Autotelic, out now on Tiny Engines (order). The video arrives ahead of the band’s upcoming co-headline tour with Endearments, which kicks off on December 5 in Minneapolis. The tour will include stops across the Midwest and Northeast and including shows in Chicago, Philadelphia, New Haven, Brooklyn, and more. Tickets are on-sale now.
“Double Knotted” pairs hypnotic alt-pop rhythms with introspective, enigmatic lyrics, exploring the tension between personal boundaries, resilience, and finding balance amid uncertainty. Choreographed by the band’s Krista Holly Diem, the “Double Knotted” video overlays multiple layers. One up close and almost static, the others almost dancing together but mostly colliding. It’s motion without clear direction, no single one acknowledging another.
On the song, Krista Holly Diem adds, “This song is about grounding yourself in the midst of chaos, finding balance amid uncertainty and motion. It’s not about achieving perfection or gaining control, it’s about persistence and presence.”
Produced by Alex Newport (At The Drive-In, Bloc Party), “Double Knotted” balances restless, looping motifs with a steady pulse, capturing LAPÊCHE’s knack for turning inner turbulence into something both immersive and assured.
LAPÊCHE is a band in motion. Autotelic is rooted in presence and process rather than resolution. Named for the idea of doing something for its own sake, the album invites listeners to feel more than they understand to sit with ache, motion, and becoming. Trading post-punk edges for gothic shimmer, shoegaze drift, and melodic minimalism, the record carries a quiet spiritual charge. Recorded in Joshua Tree, Autotelic reflects the stillness and expanse of the desert.
Formed in 2016 as Krista Holly Diem’s solo project, LAPÊCHE has grown into a fully collaborative Brooklyn-based band with longtime members Dave Diem (bass) and Drew DeMaio (guitar), joined by drummer Colin Brooks (Samiam). Much of the album’s emotional clarity comes from lived experience: Krista and Dave, who are married and in long-term sobriety, bring a shared language of healing, honesty, and presence to their songwriting. That commitment shapes not only the lyrics, but the way the band creates together.
Across Autotelic, LAPÊCHE builds a patient, immersive sound world where restraint is as powerful as release. The arrangements breathe, favoring texture, repetition, and space over traditional crescendos. Guitars blur and shimmer, rhythms pulse with quiet insistence, and melodies arrive like mantras rather than hooks, rewarding deep listening and inviting listeners to remain present inside the sound.
Krista’s clear-eyed, vulnerable songwriting anchors the record. Tracks like “Happy 4U” explore the emotional collision of joy and grief with restraint and warmth, while songs such as “When Are You From,” “The Alien Dove,” and “Autotelic Nosebleed” offer moments of softness, mourning, and mantra-like release. Having toured with Jawbox and shared stages with Torche and Do Make Say Think, and earned praise from outlets including Atwood Magazine, Bandcamp, Flood Magazine, Magnet Magazine, NPR, Under the Radar and more, LAPÊCHE continues to carve space for emotional complexity in indie rock with their most focused and unflinching release to date.
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