Photo by Alex MacDougall

“Plays in Berlin once,” captioned Mandy, Indiana over the post accompanying their new single, “Idea is Best”. Even if you yourself have never been set foot inside a Euro rave underground, you understand thoroughly through sensory upon pressing play. These days, the experimental industrial quartet are definitely logging more mileage and life experience beyond Manchester lines after breaking through with last year’s listmaking debut full, I’ve seen a way, and here, they sound fully immersed in that moment while embracing the newness of all the ways the world of sound expands when moving in their direction. The listen’s footprint remains steeped in heavier flash sonic effects as Valentine Caulfield’s echoes carry, murkily, through the light pollution, but there’s also a different plane unlocked within their energy field here that act like electronic portals leading into a more dangerous form of ecstasy. It’s highly potent and inescapable — Mandy, Indiana following their intuition into paths unknown fully. And to date, their ideas have yet to fail them…

Edited by: Harry Steel

Mandy, Indiana’s “Idea is Best” single is available now on Fire Talk.