It is a spirit of making music anywhere and with anything: field recordings from Philadelphia public busses
Idir Ben Hakim on tamtam and vocals and El Houssain Oumaa on bendir
the now Stockholm-based English guitarist Jon Collin changes his guitar for a keyed fiddle
He played almost all of the instruments on the album
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 It is a spirit ofFor 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