Call Your Phone by Bleach Raincoat Ranks Second of Eleven 2026 Songs on Spotify
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Call Your Phone by Bleach Raincoat Ranks Second of Eleven 2026 Songs on Spotify
Jeff Salak’s Shoegaze and Power Pop Single Now Sits Inside the Five-Song Alpine Skiing Set
Call Your Phone by Bleach Raincoat sits second in the project’s Spotify top tracks, a month after its release. The shoegaze and power pop single came out on 25 September. So far, only Anywhere You’re Not, released three weeks earlier, ranks above it.
Bleach Raincoat’s Call Your Phone is in the playlist below, filed with the rock, alternative rock and indie records it belongs beside, and everything written about the project so far sits on the Bleach Raincoat profile. The single reached BestMusic.News through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news titles. Press play first, then read on for who the song is for.
Who Call Your Phone by Bleach Raincoat Is For, From Shoegaze Fans to Power Pop Devotees
Start with the listener who never had to choose between two early-1990s camps. For a few years in Britain, the two scenes shared a label. Creation Records released Ride‘s Nowhere in 1990. Then, in 1991, it put out My Bloody Valentine‘s Loveless and Teenage Fanclub‘s Bandwagonesque. One camp buried the tune under waves of guitar noise. The other, by contrast, put the tune at the front. In America, Spin even named Bandwagonesque its album of 1991, ahead of Nirvana’s Nevermind.
Bleach Raincoat files Call Your Phone under alternative rock, shoegaze and power pop, all three at once. As a result, its natural listener is the one who keeps Ride and Teenage Fanclub in the same playlist. In short, the single is a hazy record that keeps its melody in view.
Beyond the single, the catalogue makes the power pop side explicit. One song from April is called Just Like Live at Budokan. Any power pop fan will connect that title with Cheap Trick. The band recorded Cheap Trick at Budokan at Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan in 1978. That live album is the record that made them stars in America. Its live take on I Want You to Want Me then reached the US top ten in 1979.
Early Response Shows in the Project’s Own Spotify Top Ten
The full list fills in the rest of the picture. Three songs from Alpine Skiing, released on 16 October, are already inside it: Wherever We Would Go, Fiona and Couch. In total, ten of the eleven songs Bleach Raincoat has released this year appear in the list. Only Escape is missing, so that April song is worth a listen for anyone working through the self-titled set.
The order of release explains part of that ranking. Bleach Raincoat puts songs out one at a time and gathers them later. Kiss arrived on 13 February, Behave on 13 March and the Budokan song on 10 April. All three then joined a six-song self-titled release on 24 April. The autumn followed the same plan. Anywhere You’re Not came out on 4 September, and Call Your Phone followed. Later, both opened the five-song Alpine Skiing set.
Call Your Phone is the second track on that set, straight after the September single. Consequently, Alpine Skiing opens with the two songs listeners have already ranked highest. That is about as clear a vote as a new project gets.
The Community Around Call Your Phone by Bleach Raincoat Starts With One Credited Songwriter
Behind the Philadelphia project is a single credited writer. Jeff Salak wrote the words and the music for Call Your Phone. He also plays the electric guitar on it and is listed as its executive producer. Furthermore, the single came out on Real Office Reboot Records, the same imprint that released Kiss in February.
That keeps the circle around the song small and direct. There is no long list of outside producers or guest players to credit. Instead, there is one songwriter and the people who stream the result. Eleven songs between February and October keep that circle close, with a new release in five of those nine months.
For a first listen, play the two autumn singles in the order Alpine Skiing sequences them. Then go back to the April Budokan song to hear where the power pop side of the project began. Either way, listeners who arrive through one door, shoegaze or power pop, will find the other waiting.
From the BestMusic.News curator team: “Call Your Phone keeps its blend inside three minutes and 21 seconds. That length is the power pop half of the record setting the rules. It is also why the song sits so comfortably next to the opener on Alpine Skiing.”
Call Your Phone plays at the top of this page, and it is also on Apple Music as a single. Follow Bleach Raincoat on Spotify, Apple Music, the YouTube channel, SoundCloud, Instagram and Bluesky.
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