Photo by Harry Steel

Every day, every minute, every second, the world is at war with nefarious ghouls attempting to oppress its people. It’s a disconcerting realization, and one that can easily knock any spec of a human on this blue dot into a state of ambivalence. Mandy, Indiana look at suffocating as an opportunity for something else, though. To the Manchester four-piece, it fuels the reaction defined by Newton’s Third Law, which in their hands is an act of revolution. On “Peach Fuzz”, the latest single from the band’s upcoming debut full-length, i’ve seen a way, they push their way out from a confined space of little breathing room heard in the muffled industrial drone in its early moments, and soon take back the open air with an unsustainable centrifugal energy that flings mobilization outward. “It’s not a revolt, it’s a revolution,” shouts Valentine Caulfield over and over in French as its axis spins clearer into view. “They take us for idiots / We go around in circles.” As we are compressed into seemingly insurmountable circumstances, Mandy, Indiana are a reminder that the people can only be pushed into a corner so far before resistance becomes a necessity.

Animated by: Jared Pike

Mandy, Indiana’s i’ve seen a way will be released May 19th on Fire Talk.