Hailing from Cardiff, Red Telephone’s blend of melodic psych and darkwave has drawn comparisons to indie trailblazers MGMT, St. Vincent, and fellow Welsh cult favourites Super Furry Animals. Their second album ‘Delay The New Day’ was released in January 2025, garnering critical acclaim from the likes of Clash, Under The Radar, and God Is In The TV.

Exploring themes of paranoia, doubt, hope, and the trappings of group dynamics, ‘Delay the New Day’ was arranged by the band in solitude in Cornwall and recorded semi-live in under two weeks. Driven by the quintet's knack for multi-instrumental intricacies and drawing on cinematic influences, Red Telephone’s latest work is bold, genre-bending and defiantly optimistic, while staying true to the unique style they established in their 2023 debut.

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“Gritty, brilliantly dark and expansive. A deliciously dark, mesmerising and a dystopian-tinged sonic palette that could have been heard in Bowie’s Berlin in the late 1970’s. An impressive and masterful debut.” - Clash Music

“Very nicely layered. Has a bit of early 80s melodrama; a sort of Pet Shop Boys croon and a Krautrock halo.” – Steve Lamacq, BBC 6 Music

“They have the potential to soundtrack a generation.” – Drowned in Sound

“Something brilliantly dark about this, with their synth psych noir with a pulse. Real potential to go big.” - Chris Hawkins, BBC 6 Music

“With music as smart as their aesthetic, Cardiff’s Red Telephone are making neo-noir sounds that could have made it onto the ‘Drive’ soundtrack.” – Gigwise

Delay the New Day

Willing to Wait

Los Occisos Del Amor

Viernes de bajón

Dream within a Dream

Orbit A Moon

Happy Anniversary! <3

Lots of love to Amelia Fletcher (Heavenly) and Phillip Ward (At The Beep) for allowing me to reinterpret their work, Hannah (Lvndrbby) and Bailey (Kylo Gun) for their wonderful voices, and Mother Nature for the noise <3

doppelganger

Where Are You Now?

Afterglow

Brian Eno workshop 03 - Write a protest song.

Can't See the Bullshit for the Lies

am i a shame

You smell like a summer breeze 
Look like porch lights in the early eve 
I know this star is just for me, think I could catch it if I reached 
Feel like dirty ripped blue jeans 
Like red stained tongues and scraped up knees or growing pains that run bone deep
Hell, I would love to catch you in my hands 

I wanna catch you in my hands
I’m gonna catch you in my

Soft now, careful
I’ll be gentle
Sleep my darling
I’ll be watching

I saw love in your eyes
But love’s the stars we steal from the sky

You’re my firefly, I need you here
This time I’ll poke some holes for air
I know that stars will set and rise, but I can keep you through the night
Cause I’ve got wishes, if you’re true
You could bring a smile back to the moon
And then I’m sure I’d smile too
I need to catch you in my hands

I think I’ll keep you
Mark me like a tattoo 
I know I act before I think, I scraped my knees to get you
Twinkle, twinkle, flying star
You shine for me, don’t stray too far

I saw love in your eye
But love’s the stars we steal from the sky

Firefly

Help You Run

Ongoing solo music project from Paul Finn, member of Open Field, The Kingsbury Manx and former Spider Bags.

"Supply & Demand" Single to be released 9/9/22!
"It will take a long time" Full length to be released 9/23/22!

Orbit A Moon

Evening Pines

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