Flathead - Flathead (2025) Hi-Res

Fans of Shoes and The Speedways—Flathead are your next obsession. If Marseille five-piece Flathead (featuring members of Pogy & les Kefars, La Flingue, Aggravation, Tomy & the Cougars, La Flemme, and Parade) impressed you with their debut EP in 2022, just wait until you hear their first full-length. The album, simply titled Flathead dropped last week and is available through Wanda Records (Germany), Dangerhouse Skylab Records (France), and Take The City Records (Spain).

Across nine tracks, Flathead channel the spirit of Shoes, 20/20, The Records, and Milk ‘N’ Cookies—power pop the way it was meant to be played in the ’70s.They fit comfortably alongside contemporaries The Whiffs, The Reflectors, and The Speedways, bands that faithfully reanimate power pop while still sounding distinctly their own.

Flathead have a sharp pop sensibility, but they deliver it with punk urgency and a lean, no-frills approach. Expect effective guitar riffs, a loose-but-driving rhythm section, and sweet, warm harmonies. Flathead is a stellar power pop record front-to-back—no doubt about it.