MANDY, INDIANA - Urgh LP Deutschpunk Balanced awkwardly atop almost ironically

Balanced awkwardly atop almost ironically upbeat jangles and rhythms Mitch Easter might have captured on his reel-to-reel are prime cuts of bummer pop

the emerging dance music scene influenced by Cuban 78s

Idir Ben Hakim on tamtam and vocals and El Houssain Oumaa on bendir

or intimacy

MANDY, INDIANA - Urgh LP Deutschpunk Balanced awkwardly atop almost ironicallyFor Mandy, Indiana, the truth is the only way through. On their Sacred Bones debut URGH, the four piece vocalist Valentine Caulfield, guitarist and producer Scott Fair, synth player Simon Catling, and drummer Alex Macdougall are a force of uncanny nature, grafting together a record that is as much a call to action as a parlay into oblivion and transcendence. Across the ten tracks, the band interpolate their own unconventional language into a mantra