Mandy, Indiana Announce Debut Album 'i've seen a way', Share Single "Pinking Shears"
Today we’re thrilled to announce the debut LP from Mandy, Indiana!
i've seen a way is the debut album from Mandy, Indiana out May 19th 2023 on Fire Talk. ‘…’ EP garnered acclaim from Pitchfork, FADER, Resident Advisor, Stereogum & more, earning recent tours w/Gilla Band & festival plays like End of the Road & Wide Awake. Punchy and immediate, "Pinking Shears" channels the band's energetic punk tendencies w/Caulfield's shouty vocals leading the way through chopped up samples and strangely-danceable electronic noise. At once disarmingly playful and politically-charged, the band's transgressive electronics impose a cavernous, luminescent path to the sonic future.
Recorded in caves, crypts, and shopping centres, Mandy, Indiana's debut album i've seen a way is everywhere at once: channeling the chaos that surrounds our everyday lives, their debut is an exquisitely rendered portrait that transcends genre into a expertly-executed vision that’s entirely new and adventurous. Crucial to the album are effects wrought upon the sound by a clutch of unlikely off-site recording locations with novel acoustics, including screaming vocals emitted in a Bristol shopping mall and live drums recorded in a cave in the West Country – the latter session interrupted by literal spelunkers. Other sessions happened in Gothic crypts, where the band's physical bass frequencies and experiments with volume competed with underground roadworks and upset a yoga class above. i've seen a way is a manifesto for these moments of openness and disruption, with sessions in more controlled studio environments spliced with spontaneously captured lo-fi phone recordings, including a field of Swiss cows captured by McDougall while hiking: Fair elaborates that "these locations offered something acoustically, but would traditionally be thought of as having the 'wrong' characteristics for producing a 'good' recording. These spaces imprint on the sound: It's not about a lack of access to more traditional recording spaces – it's about us capturing things happening in a specific place at that moment. Though painstakingly crafted, where Mandy, Indiana thrives is the unexpected - and the resulting album sounds like nothing that has come before it.
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