Mandy, Indiana

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Mandy, Indiana share new single "Sicko! (feat. billy woods)". taken from their new album 'URGH' via Sacred Bones Records.

UK tour announced.

With their new album 'URGH' out this Friday, Feb 6th, via Sacred Bones Records, today Mandy, Indiana share new single "Sicko! (feat. billy woods)". The band are also set to play UK shows in London, Leeds and Glasgow this March.

Built on a stark, forward-driving techno framework, "Sicko!" pairs Mandy Indiana's eviscerating sound with billy woods’ unmistakable vocals. The idea behind the video for "Sicko!" is a collaborative, multi-director music take where seven filmmakers each create a distinct 30-second visual segment of the track, released as an interactive carousel and also assembled into a full-length visual.

The band elaborates:

"Social media has changed the way we consume art and music, often meaning that we rarely see a full music video in the way it was intended to be experienced. For 'Sicko!' we wanted to try something different, leaning into the way people consume art on social platforms.

We asked creators to make 30 second films based around 'sickness' as a theme, drawing inspiration from the track. It was an experiment to see what a music video might be like if we present distinct, often conflicting, visual styles side-by-side.

The videos were then matched with different sections of the track in a sequence that felt right. By moving through and watching each short, you will hear the full song."

On collaborating with billy woods, the band comments:

“We wanted to create something with an artist we love, who’s been inspiring to us. woods is such a unique voice in hip hop, his words are so expressive and this track definitely adds a different dimension to the record."

On URGH, Mandy, Indiana is a force of uncanny nature, grafting together a record that is as much a call to action as a parlay into oblivion and transcendence. It finds the band expanding their far-reaching sound with each member — vocalist Valentine Caulfield, guitarist and producer Scott Fair, synth player Simon Catling, and drummer Alex Macdougall — actively taking part in the songwriting process.

Co-produced and co-mixed by Fair and Daniel Fox of Gilla Band, much of URGH was written during an intense residency at an eerie studio house in the outskirts of Leeds and recorded across Berlin and Greater Manchester.

The process was shaped by adversity with both Caulfield and Macdougall undergoing multiple rounds of surgeries in the same time frame as the album was being written and recorded. The harrowing experience and the exhaustion of their respective recoveries bleed into the surreality of Caufield’s writing, blurring the line between inner turmoil and external chaos.

URGH is deeply personal, yet also reflects the violent, fractured state of the wider world as Caulfield’s lyrics grapple with sexual assault, systemic indifference, and the omnipresence of pain. While most of the lyrics are in her native French, the emotional clarity cuts through regardless of language. Caulfield still uses her voice as a distorted instrument and a weapon, oscillating between equal parts playful and eviscerating.

Following their acclaimed 2023 debut, i’ve seen a way, URGH sees Mandy, Indiana interpolating their own unconventional language into a mantra for self-determination and resilience, forging a template for a brighter future before it fades to black.

Mandy, Indiana will tour across Europe this year with shows in London, Paris, Berlin and more. All dates are listed below.

Photo Credit Charles Gall

Tour dates

Wed 25 Mar - London, UK - Heaven*

Fri 27 Mar - Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club*

Sat 28 Mar - Glasgow, UK - Room 2*

Sun 29 Mar - Liverpool, UK @ Rough Trade Liverpool

Wed 8 Apr - Dunkirk, FR - Les 4 Ecluses

Thu 9 Apr - Paris, FR - Petit Bain

Sun 12 Apr - Cologne, DE - Bumann&Sohn

Tue 14 Apr - Copenhagen, DK - Huset

Wed 15 Apr - Berlin, DE - Urban Spree