MANDY, INDIANA - Urgh LP Deutschpunk Idir Ben Hakim on tamtam

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

inspired by looking after his baby daughter during the lockdown

so I stole his thunder as best I could

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

MANDY, INDIANA - Urgh LP Deutschpunk Idir Ben Hakim on tamtamFor 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