The record arrives less
than a year after Dolly Mixture’s Rachel Love bumped into Ian Button (of Heavenly) and Peter
Momtchiloff (of Heavenly and Talulah Gosh) at a gig, discovered they were the same age,
and decided that was reason enough to form a band.
Allison Thomson (The
Trash Can Sinatras, The Love Band) joined shortly after on trumpet and
keyboards, fleshing out a sound that harkens back to the heyday of Bristol’s Sarah Records, skipping between jangling
indiepop, deadpan duets, and motorik hypnosis, with Love and Button
co-writing and trading vocals.
Momtchiloff, for his part, contributes two tracks: the brittle “Paper Thin” and the rush of “Hillman Minx”. The band enlisted psych mainstay Allan Crockford (The Prisoners, JTQ) to mix the record, lending the whole thing a warm valve-driven depth.
The speed of the project is written into the album title. The band worked fast, building on three digital EPs released earlier in 2026, which were compiled on a CD by Skep Wax and Slumberland and promptly sold out. New copies are promised to coincide with the album release.
Railcard
made their live debut in December 2025 and have a string of UK dates
lined up through summer and autumn. They play London’s Betsey Trotwood
on 9 August, head to Glasgow for Glas-Goes Pop Fest on 15 August, then
return in September for shows at Brighton Railway Club (13 September),
Bristol’s Thunderbolt (25 September), and Coventry’s Just Dropped In (26
September).
Two Steps At A Time tracklist
“Two Steps At A Time”
“1962 Forever”
“Hillman Minx”
“Flannelette”
“Foxy”
“I’m A Disaster”
“Paper Thin”
“Unstable Neighbour”
“Runaround”
“When You Say You Love Me Something’s Wrong”
“Snow Blind”
“Sunday Sun”
