Mandy, Indiana ^【GB-ENG】

Mandy, Indiana’s debut album, I’ve seen a way, is an exquisitely rendered portrait that transcends genre, channeling the chaos of everyday life into an entirely new and adventurous sound. Their music is both chaotic and precision-engineered, where chance operations are manipulated into percussive geometries, and gnarled guitars sit in thickets of distortion.

Crucial to their sound are effects wrought by unlikely off-site recording locations: screaming vocals in a Bristol shopping mall, drums in a West Country cave, and sessions in Gothic crypts. These spaces imprint on the sound, reflecting a desire to disrupt cinematic language, alter textures, and create clashes that subvert expectations, keeping the audience on its toes.

Vocalist Valentine Caulfield’s lyrics, often sung in French, add lyrical repetitions and a poetic rhythm, conveying fury and fairytales, frustration, and rebellion. The band draws on experimental noise, from drum machine snaps and white noise to sprung synths and pulsing bass. Mandy, Indiana creates music that is unpredictable, intentional, and designed to disrupt, connect, and invite movement beyond the familiar, sounding like nothing that has come before it.