Day three of my 2026 favorites series, and we cross to the other side of the world: Telenova are a Melbourne trio — vocalist and creative lead Angeline Armstrong, with multi-instrumentalists and producers Edward Quinn and Joshua Moriarty — who make what they call cinematic indie pop, and the description earns itself.
"IN THE NAME OF YOUR LOVE" is track four on their second album THE WARNING, released February 27, 2026 on EMI / Universal Music Australia, following their 2024 debut Time Is a Flower. The song has lived with the band a while — an earlier version appeared on their 2022 EP Stained Glass Love — and on the new album it arrives as what one Australian review called "a euphoric explosion of indie goodness"
On the surface it reads as a love song, and a desperate one: "I only wanted to be held in your arms." But Armstrong has pointed to its central line herself — "I cry and I curse and I scream at the heavens above / But it's you that I want and I'll bleed in the name of your love" — calling it the album's most important lyric, almost blasphemous: a song about opening yourself up to a higher power and putting your faith in the unknown.
The video matches that tension. It cuts between a silhouetted dancer against saturated red and a crowded subway car bathed in cool blue-green light, Armstrong singing straight to camera while the passengers around her sway holding the overhead rails — a whole carload of people in a trance, which is pretty much what the song does to a listener.
I feel the passion of this song deep inside.
— Red Hector
Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUAvfo8fpuU
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