Name: Perfect Recluse by Spangled in February 2025 - best new alternative, post-punk and indie tracks
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Musicians need support. If you can afford it, some of these fantastic tracks are available to buy on bandcamp, including these from the top five:
De La Soul https://delasoul.bandcamp.com/album/say-no-go-remixes 
Bambara https://bambara.bandcamp.com/album/birthmarks
Sad Boys Klub https://sadboysklub.bandcamp.com/track/cry-scene 
Punchlove https://punchlove.bandcamp.com/album/o

February 2025 - best new alternative, post-punk and indie tracks

Combining a passion for melodic psych and darkwave, Red Telephone’s 2023 debut album ‘Hollowing Out’ was described by Clash Music as “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.” 

Hailing from Cardiff, the multi-instrumentalists with two sets of brothers in their ranks released their first two singles as a double A-side vinyl on Welsh cult label Popty-Ping and have been championed by Huw Stephens & Steve Lamacq. The five-piece recently finished recording their second album, which is due for release in October 2024.

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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

Faithful

Love to See You Shine

Ridicule

Letters From Sing Sing

Pool House

History

Say No Go

Say No Go (New Keys Vocal)

(sublimate)

"Two things, that always get me down
I have work
I have no work"

The latest single from Bristol noise pop band Shoun Shoun is a loud, punky rebuke of the daily grind and all its misery. Official streaming release is January 31 2025. 

Taken from the forthcoming album Noisebleed (to be released later this year)

Work

GroundBreaking

For Good

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The Luckiest Man

Sad Boys Klub's second single ‘Cryscene’ will be released 28th of February 2025. This uptempo post-punk track builds on the intensity and powerful outbursts the band makes a trademark of, this time finished off with a menacing bridge and punchy finale. The debut EP is scheduled for release in October 2025.

CRY SCENE paints the picture of someone’s fictional suicide in the non-fictional world. Storytelling at its darkest, in which reality manages to overtake us.

This one is for all those we’ve loved (and still love) but lost.

‘You are the morning after dark’
‘Talk death, Voice it.’
🌻

Cry Scene

It’s about that kind of love that spirals - consuming, impossible to quit. It’s the sound of wanting more even when it’s already too much. Perfect for those late summer nights ✨


Written by: Agnieszka Trawczynska, Simon Velazquez, Aleksander Kaczmarek
Drums by: Marek Radziminski
Producer, Mixing Engineer: Aleksander Kaczmarek
Mastering Engineer: Krzysztof Kessler

Feel me
Just like you feel your heartbeat
On your wrists
Feel the hot blood pumping

Curious
Curious, your heart is
I might let you in
If I feel you're like me

And you crawl back to my arms and overdose

Crawl
Crawl yourself to my skin
Magnetised
To what you could not see

I'll make you fall
In so many ways
You could not imagine
I'll keep you entertained
Until nothing feels just like this

And you crawl back to my arms and overdose

It's so much faster
Feel it approaching
It's so much faster
I feel it coming
It's so much faster
I feel it coming
It's so much faster
I feel it coming

This feeling
This beating
Is harder
Than anything else

Will thicken
Will bubble
Erupt and cause trouble
We'll burst to fall

I'll watch it in rapture
An outstanding finding
And overcommitting
Cause it is so blinding
I'll try to capture
Euphoria and love
And I'm forgetting
That life is upsetting
That every beginning
Is start to an end
I will forget that we ever lived
I will forget that we ever lived

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