Speedial

Speedial are a 4 piece alternative band from London. Their work has been described as "both direct and ultimately complex, melting together shoegaze and noise rock aspects with almost baroque about-turns" (CLASH Magazine) and "introspective, complex, and impossible to pin down" (DIY Magazine).

The band's latest release - a 7" A/B side comprising of new tracks 'Perfume' / 'One Half' - was produced by the band's trusted collaborator Joseph Futak (Tapir!, lilo) - two tracks which move between hushed, suspended passages and sudden bursts of tangled noise, folding jazz-informed rhythmic fluidity, wiry guitar interplay and uneasy melodic tension into something both intimate and volatile.

Drawing on influences like Radiohead & Fiona Apple, Cordelia Gartside is building a lo-fi alt-rock world. Her songs carry the tension of a Lynch scene: the quiet, then the collapse. Live, her band builds atmosphere out of reverb, distortion and groaning guitars. Gartside's voice cuts through it, or breaks inside it. Her sharp lyrics and hypnotic delivery make the quiet as arresting as the noise. FFO: Mitski, Big Thief, Radiohead, Fiona Apple.