Formal Sppeedwear drop debut album Punch Card
The Stoke On Trent trio's first full-length is out now on Melodic, and frontman Beck Clewlow is leaning hard on the Talking Heads comparison.
BY JOLT Staff · Sep 13 2026 · 1 min readFormal Sppeedwear dropped their first album Punch Card on September 11 through Melodic. The UK trio, out of Stoke On Trent, play angular neon post-punk that shares DNA with Talking Heads. Frontman is Beck Clewlow.
Chris DeVille, who wrote the announcement, framed the argument like this: "I like Talking Heads. You like Talking Heads. You know who else likes Talking Heads? Formal Sppeedwear." He also pointed out that the songwriting and execution are first-rate. The album is the band's debut full-length, following earlier singles that had them marked as one to watch.
No tour dates have been announced. Punch Card is streaming now, though a Spotify embed cannot be displayed. Nothing else is confirmed.
