Spünday – While My Guitar Gently Beeps (2023)
From RGM to Buzz Magazine, Reviewer’s Retreat, and The Other Side Reviews (that’s us!), Wales-based trio Spünday is turning the heads of curators across the globe. Influenced by “guitar pedals and absurdity”, Paul (vocals and guitar), Daf (bass) and Matthew (drums) have created an obscure sound that is difficult to imitate. The band began to release music in 2020 so they are not minnows in a sonic pool of sharks; however, the innocence in their tracks brings a rawness to their flavour. The latest addition to Spünday’s discography is the single ‘While My Guitar Gently Beeps’.
Following their track ‘Omni Nuisance’, ‘While My Guitar Gently Beeps’ is the band’s first release in 2023. Recorded between Newport’s One Louder Studios and Tonypandy’s The Loft Studios, ‘While My Guitar Gently Beeps’ sees (or rather hears) Spünday adopt a hard-hitting punk rock sound with undertones of psychedelic noise rock woven throughout the single. Harsh, brash and bold, a distortion exists in the instrumentation met by Paul’s gruff vocals creating heart-pounding insanity.
What I find interesting about ‘While My Guitar Gently Beeps’ is not the powerful punk rock tone but rather the transition to a softer hard rock design near the end, and the auction in the middle. Stopping entirely, Spünday remove all music making way for an online auction where the item is sold for over $3,000,000. Why do this? To show versatility and innovation as artists? To lull people into one sound and then hit them in the face with a completely contrasting feature? For me, it is a poignant stab at the underlying theme of the song – how music is carelessly and heartlessly sold in today’s industry.
“A stinging attack on a music industry hellbent on stifling creativity, running nascent musical careers and unwilling to take risks. Their insistence on re-hashing and re-packaging…” – Spünday on ‘While My Guitar Gently Beeps’
For more from Spünday, check out their Instagram and Spotify.
This artist was discovered via Musosoup #sustainablecurator
