Railcard - Two Steps At A Time

Featuring musical stalwarts from such indie luminaries as Dolly Mixture, Heavenly, Death In Vegas, The Catenary Wires, and Trash Can Sinatras, this supergroup quartet are somehow even greater than the sum of their already highly esteemed parts.

And, if you think that gives you an idea as to how they sound, you’d be right. But that’s only half the story; Railcard then add a bevy of bedazzling influences, including everyone from The Kinks and the Shangri-Las to Hawkwind and the Raincoats, to their musical locker.

The end result - Two Steps At A Time – is a fun-packed sonic journey (on a stacked Dinked edition with bonus 7”) that you’ll want to take time and time again.

For Fans Of: Burt Bacharach / Nancy Sinatra / Dolly Mixture / Heavenly /  Stereolab / Love

You have to wonder why Railcard took so long to be born: their debut album feels like it should have been in your collection for years. But it wasn’t until 2025 that Rachel Love (Dolly Mixture), Ian Button and Peter Momtchiloff (Heavenly) met at a gig, realised that they were exactly the same age, and decided that this was an excellent reason to form a new band.  The shared history, the same pop references, the parallel lives… Railcard had to happen, and there was no time to lose.  Two Steps At A Time - the album title and theme song - express exactly how quickly Railcard have worked since then - jumping over pavement cracks and whistling past graveyards to get these songs written, recorded and released while they are still sweet and fresh.
 
Railcard made their live debut in December 2025 and had by then recruited their fourth member: Allison Thomson (Trash Can Sinatras, The Love Band), whose flawless trumpet and swirly keyboard-playing complete the Railcard sound, allowing the band to fulfil the significant ambition and range of the songs, which are mostly co-written and often co-sung by Love and Button.  “Flannelette” and “Sunday Sun”, delicate and swoony, could almost be Slapp Happy at their most Bacharach. “Foxy”, mysterious and charming, has more than a hint of Kate Bush December magic. The raucous duet “I’m A Disaster” is The Kinks meets deadpan Shangri-Las.  The title track could have been an alternative theme tune for Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads. “Runaround” is like a school choir doing The Raincoats. “Unstable Neighbour”, mesmerising and insistent: it might make you think of Stereolab; we might imagine an indiepop Hawkwind.  Peter Momtchiloff also contributes two wonderful songs on the album: the fragile and hallucinatory “Paper Thin” and the Love-meets-Undertones rush of “Hillman Minx”.
 
As with the first EPs, Railcard enlisted the sonic services of Medway psych expert, Allan Crockford (of The Prisoners, JTQ and many more), who has delivered mixes that pump with vintage valve energy and reverby depth.

Ian Button also performs with The Penrose Web, Heavenly, Swansea Sound and The Catenary Wires. Peter Momtchiloff also performs with Heavenly and Would-be-goods.