Following the release of debut single Talog earlier this year Spincycle are set to release album Stone Tape Theory on 11th October and get things going with a launch gig at the Rock N Roll Brewhouse in Birmingham’s jewellery quarter on the same day.
This is the culmination of a journey starting in late 2022 as a duo that has grown and developed into the majestic four piece on this recording.
Recorded and mixed at the legendary Foel Studios in North Wales in November 2024 and January 2025. Staying onsite for a couple of weekends with a rough idea of what they wanted to record and hoped to get as much down as they could. With recording punctuated with flu, snacks, gruesome tales and Duolingo.Producer Mike Bew was a star throughout. The band had great fun during the whole process and definitely took advantage of the huge stash of weird and wonderful effect pedals he’s built up over the years. Listen to the album opener and you’ll hear Mike’s old FM/LW radio, which gave us some spookily relevant commentary to use!
Track Listing
Side A
tuning in
spincycle
talog
sunstone
reedy river
Side B
velvety
voodoo
Formats:
Limited edition vinyl with bonus track £25
CD £10
Digital download £7
Available at gigs and via bandcamp
Album Launch Saturday 11th October
Location: Rock N Roll Brewhouse, Jewellery Quarter
Doors: 3 pm
Entry: free
Minimum age: 18
Support: D1G and Coughing Pigeon DJ
Other Upcoming gigs
Sunday 30th November
Second City Sonic Attack 2 @ The Castle and Falcon returns with five more great bands on a Sunday afternoon/early evening.
Doors: 2.30pm – 8.00pm
Entry: £15 Adv or £20 on the door (or Under 25? Take advantage of 2 for £15)
Minimum age: 14+
Ticket Link: https://www.skiddle.com/e/41120000
Line-up: MODERN LITERATURE (Headline) / SWEETPOOL / EARL TEMPLE FOUNDATION / SPINCYCLE / SLUGMAN
Saturday 24th January
Supporting Horsefeathers @ The Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath, Birmingham
More details to follow
Talog Single
In May this year Spincycle released their Debut single Talog on CD and download.
Available only at gigs or via the bands bandcamp page – https://spincyclemusicuk.bandcamp.com/
Tracks:
Talog – Recorded at Foel Studios (Nov 2024 – Jan 2025)
Sunstone Demo (Reverse Mix) Studio Demo 2024
“‘Talog’ is the debut EP from Birmingham-based band Spincycle. The A-side is the title track, a gorgeous instrumental swirl of shoegaze guitars and dreamy atmospheres that heaves like the ocean and threatens to break into violence but never quite does. It evokes both the beauty and the dark sensuality of My Bloody Valentine or the Lilys. The B-side is given over to ‘Sunstone Reverse Mix’, a vapour trail of backwards guitar noise that is sublimely beautiful. Both tracks are bloody great and left me wanting more. Ones to watch for certain.” single review by Jonathan Thornton for Outside Left
The Band
Like dark energy, Spincycle were a band that existed in theory only until late 2022 when proof was found through a series of live events as a duo. Now grown to a 4 piece, they deliver an instrumental psychedelic experience with floating flowing guitar swirls and drones that hit angular, dissident notes over disembodied spoken word. Think C86 meets shoegaze re-booted, meets trance/space/noise-rock!
Based in Birmingham, England this 4 piece comprise of Andrew Wilson (guitar & videographer); Steve Townsend-Gee (bass, audio triggers and visuals); Steve Crawford (guitar) and Vic Townsend-Gee (drums, beats & percussion). They have played at a variety of venues including the Rock N Roll Brewhouse, Hare and Hounds and The Victoria in Birmingham and Claptrap in Stourbridge.
“At St. Swithun’s Church, four-piece Spincycle offer an ‘instrumental psychedelic experience’. The acoustics are perfect for their Godspeed-like sound. Projected on the back wall are images of black and white thistles withstanding the wind. A disembodied radio voice narrates something fascinating yet indiscernible. A tom drum is smacked, and an Interpol-like guitar line is played. The thistles are replaced by phantom fluttering starlings. I swear that the actual Andy Bell from Ride is on guitar.” Neil Laurenson of SLAP magazine, Sept 2025
Online:
https://www.facebook.com/spincyclebandUK
https://www.instagram.com/spincycleband
https://linktr.ee/spincycleband
https://spincyclemusicuk.bandcamp.com