Mandy, Indiana are back with the news that they’ve signed to Sacred Bones. They’ve also announced a new album, URGH, which is set for release on February 6. It’s led by the throbbing, visceral new single ‘Magazine’. Check it out below.
“‘Magazine’ is the expression of the frustration and deep-seated violence I felt while attempting to recover from being raped,” vocalist Valentine Caulfield shared in a statement. Just like most victims of sexual assault, I will never get justice, and just like most perpetrators, my attacker will never be punished. My therapist encouraged me to channel my anger into something productive, so here it is: my primal, screaming call for retribution. It is the only way I will ever get to say to my rapist: you hurt me, so I’m going to hurt you.”
Guitarist and producer Scott Fai co-produced and mixed URGH with Daniel Fox of Gilla Band. The follow-up to 2023’s I’ve Seen a Way was written during residency at a studio house in the outskirts of Leeds and recorded across Berlin and Greater Manchester. Both Caulfield and drummer Alex Macdougall were undergoing multiple rounds of surgeries while the album was being written and recorded. “A lot of the record is a remix of itself,” Fair and Macdougall explained. billy woods notably features on a track called ‘Sicko!’.
Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Mandy, Indiana.
URGH Cover Artwork:
URGH Tracklist:
1. Sevastopol
2. Magazine
3. try saying
4. Dodecahedron
5. A Brighter Tomorrow
6. Life Hex
7. ist halt so
8. Sicko! [feat. billy woods]
9. Cursive
10. I’ll Ask Her
