Cardiff indie rock/psych band Red Telephone have revealed their new single ‘Delay The New Day‘.
The song serves as the title track of their upcoming album (TBA), the follow-up to last year’s debut Hollowing Out. Grab it here.
Red Telephone plans to expand on their debut record’s blend of melodic psych and darkwave by including cinematic influences. “Delay the New Day” explores themes of excess and hedonistic diversion, addressing how the appeal of nights out and simple pleasures can become laborious and repetitive.
The band spent the first part of 2024 working on the new record in solitude in the depths of Cornwall. Driven by the quintet’s knack for multi-instrumental intricacies, Red Telephone’s latest work evokes comparisons to Arctic Monkeys’ newer sound (such as Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino or The Car), while staying true to the unique style they established in their critically acclaimed debut.
Off the process, they say:
“It’s about the paranoia, doubt and dissolution that goes with the territory of pushing yourself and trying to carve out a path where you hopefully get to survive on what you love doing. Even songs on the album that aren’t directly about this still tie into the theme, for example, Delay the New Day, which is about indulgence and hedonistic distraction at the expense of creating.”
Take a listen below.
Photo credit: David Edmunds
