"They wanted to record their debut album, 2023's I've Seen a Way, in a Peak District cave known as the Devil's Arse, although budget restrictions meant they had to settle for one day in Somerset's Wookey Hole caverns. The Manchester/Berlin-based four-piece's new album, Urgh, was written in what they've called an intense residency at an eerie studio house near Leeds; at the time, singer Valentine Caulfield and drummer Alex Macdougall were both undergoing multiple rounds of surgery."
"Given the grievous state of things, the band's short-circuiting assault may hold about as much appeal for some listeners as sticking your fingers in a live socket but for those inclined to catharsis, they also fully understand the imperative to push beyond merely observing injustice to viscerally embody its head-spinning force."
"Given the industrial, siren-like intensity of their music, in which Caulfield chants about personal and societal horrors in her native French, impounding themselves in such a place might have seemed unnecessarily masochistic. Each of these acts has disassembled rock down to its mechanical bones, Frankenstein-ing it with the DNA of techno and trap to make it seem shockingly new."
Mandy, Indiana is a Manchester/Berlin-based four-piece known for extreme recording choices and intense live energy. Their debut, I've Seen a Way (2023), involved a cave recording day at Wookey Hole. The new album Urgh was written during an intense residency near Leeds while lead singer Valentine Caulfield and drummer Alex Macdougall underwent multiple surgeries. The music combines industrial, siren-like sonics with incantatory French vocals that address personal and societal horrors. Songs such as Dodecahedron indict complacency amid crisis. The band fuses disassembled rock with techno and trap elements, aligning with contemporaries who rework rock’s mechanical core.
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