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Issue 23

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The scent Speedial wear smells radiant on their new track

London four-piece Speedial have just released two new tracks, including 'Perfume', previously only available as part of a limited-run 7" vinyl released at the band’s sold out headline show at Windmill Brixton last month. The new songs mark the band’s first new music since their 2025 debut EP 'Light Of The Late Night'.

Pulling from jazz fusion, post-rock and off-kilter indie, Speedial build songs that constantly mutate in motion. Dual vocalists Serena Garrod and Millie Kirby  drift between conversational intimacy and explosive release, while Monarch Vavrechka’s spectral saxophone lines weave directly into the band’s dynamic rhythmic core alongside drummer Joe William Killick’s fluid, shape-shifting percussion.

Speaking on the release of the tracks, Serena Garrod said: "Perfume is about empathising with someone that hurt me, because I had hurt someone in that same way before. That puts you in a really weird position where you can’t simply be angry at the person because you know exactly where they’re at. Some of that anger you transfer to yourself too, because now you know how it feels to be on the receiving end, and there’s a lot of immediate self reflection that has to come from that."

Four long-time friends who grew up playing music together, Speedial's shared history is evident in their ever-evolving, tight-knit sound. Now firmly embedded in London’s thriving alternative scene, the band are regulars at the Brixton Windmill, The George Tavern, and The Shacklewell Arms.

Equal parts precise and unpredictable, Speedial are quickly establishing themselves as one of the most singular bands currently emerging from London’s underground.

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