Swansea Sound – Not My Order (Skep Wax)
More new tracks to add to your festive playlists, this time with Swansea Sound’s lament to the online order gone awry Not My Order, released as part of the band’s Christmas mini album All Is Calm.
Artist: Swansea Sound
Track: Not My Order
Label: Skep Wax
Release date: 5 December 2025
Find it: Bandcamp
Indiepop supergroup Swansea Sound say their new single Not My Order is, “about the neurosis that is the inevitable result of online shopping” and share the release as part of Christmas mini album All Is Calm.
Mixed up orders, being Whamageddoned while on hold to customer service, feeling anything but valued or prepared for gift-giving: all of this set to stomping rhythms, squealing guitars and a chorus equally suited to pogo-ing as it is cathartically shouting along.
‘And so Merry Christmas / But don’t expect much this year / Because I did an online purchase’
Alongside Not My Order and the band’s previous festive releases on All Is Calm is another new track Click And Pay (Walking In The Air). This is a rewritten version of a track from their 2023 album Twentieth Century, and with increasingly frantic vocal and twitchy guitar covers how late stage capitalism doesn’t discriminate when making things miserable for consumer and warehouse worker.
Bringing a bit of indie-punk to your Yuletide Swansea Sound have gifted you these two great new tracks as part of their now traditional Christmas offering – and they both need to secure spots on your alt-Christmas playlist with immediate effect. But probably get your online shopping done before getting distracted with that…
Not My Order by Swansea Sound is out now as part of mini album All Is Calm, available on vinyl and digitally through Skep Wax Records.
Find Swansea Sound: Bandcamp | Instagram | Facebook | Bluesky
Live shows:
- 19 December – Music Hall, Ramsgate
- 20 December – The Waiting Room, Stoke Newington
- 3 April – The Gate Arts and Community Centre, Cardiff (Wales Goes Pop)
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Sarah Lay
A long-standing music journalist she's also co-founder of independent record label Reckless Yes, an author of novels, and when not messing around with words and music, a digital strategist.
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