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Talk in Code Announces New Single; More Than Friends

Atmospherically anthemic and reinforced with that infectious rhythmic groove we’ve come to love Talk in Code for, More Than Friends is chockfull of it, and it’s their latest single, to be released on Friday 22nd August 2025 via Regent Street Records….

Even if you’re accounted for now, happily married and matured like a fine wine, the recollections of a blossoming relationship and the eagerness versus apprehension it provokes will never be pushed down a dark alley of your memory lane; successful or epic fail, they live inside the mind forever, I’m afraid! Frontman, Chris Stevens said of the single, “we’ve all been there, in a situation waiting for the other to make the first move, to validate our feelings, or save face!”

I could tell you a few stories, but will save you the agony! Especially as the earliest would be set in the eighties, about getting hot under the collar over girls in rah-rah skirts, leg warmers and dippy-boppers! But that’s the beauty of this song’s simple premise; if you’re older the irresistible eighties feel to the sound assists you in extracting the emotions needed to savour a memory or two, and you’ll stare back up at your Morten Harket or Kim Wilde poster, should the blu-tac not have dried out, praying they’ll bless you with a cure to your longing!! Billy Joel, you charlatan, it isn’t that easy to tell her about it!

Whereas if you’re younger and, as gen z generally are, far more practical to be praying to Smash Hits pullout posters, you might relate the song’s narrative to a newfound emotion, sharable on TikTok. But the eighties vibe still functions as a mechanism, because, let’s face it, musical innovators of the eighties are the catalysts to contemporary pop. I was careful here not to suggest eighties music was better, though with my rose-tinted specs on, the thought was! 

And that’s what makes Talk in Code so universally engaging; it bridges a needed gap between eighties new wave electronica and nineties indie pop. In goes the synths, guitars riffs, the immortal choruses and rousing hooks, and what it exhausts is fresh and pumping, modern yet as timeless as Chris’s Adidas jackets, like someone slipped a rocket between the bum cheeks of Tony Hadley, and whip, zoom he’s top of the download chart faster than you could cry Oasis.

For the reflective mood to the band’s artistry, which this track seems to strengthen, More Than Friends might be considered typical for the band’s direction, but as ever, they are growers, and after a listen or three you’ll find the quintessential is challenged with each new release, because this band are tight, they’re professional, and bounded by great PR, management, and a truly loyal fanbase. A base which will be singing this back to them, in blue sunglasses, at their numerous live performances within the next month!

The single’s launch party is at the Vic, Swindon, on Friday 22nd August. Tickets HERE

Another cracker, Talk in Code. For everyone else, pre-save it HERE!

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