{"id":2293,"date":"2026-02-08T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/you-need-to-listen-to-the-new-mandy-indiana-record-urgh\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:30:00","slug":"you-need-to-listen-to-the-new-mandy-indiana-record-urgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/you-need-to-listen-to-the-new-mandy-indiana-record-urgh\/","title":{"rendered":"You need to listen to the new Mandy, Indiana record: URGH"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover of Mandy, Indiana\u2019s URGH featuring multiple monochrome images of a skull and face superimposed on each other.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Sacred Bones\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/urgh.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Often, I focus on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/column\/806767\/you-need-to-listen-to-the-body-ive-seen-all-i-need-to-see\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recommending<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/column\/871847\/m83-dead-cities-red-seas-lost-ghosts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">older<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/column\/860372\/billy-woods-horrorcore-masterpiece-golliwog-a24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/column\/850564\/subversive-cosmic-horror-the-ballad-of-black-tom-victor-lavalle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">isn&rsquo;t<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/column\/864078\/cosmic-horror-comedy-podcast-welcome-to-night-vale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">currently<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/821782\/you-need-to-listen-to-the-searing-noise-pop-album-forever-in-your-heart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">getting<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/column\/812150\/watch-the-found-footage-classic-horror-mokumentary-lake-mungo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a ton<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/column\/817417\/la-ola-interior-compilation-80s-spanish-ambient-and-electronic-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attention<\/a>. But this week, I can&rsquo;t stop listening to the new Mandy, Indiana album long enough to even think about anything else. It&rsquo;s early still, obviously, but <a href=\"https:\/\/mandyindiana.bandcamp.com\/album\/urgh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>URGH<\/em><\/a> is my favorite release of 2026 so far. The band that I fell in love with on <a href=\"https:\/\/mandyindiana.bandcamp.com\/album\/ive-seen-a-way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>I&rsquo;ve Seen a Way<\/em><\/a> has found an entirely new gear. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Frontwoman Valentine Caulfield is even more uncompromising. Most of the lyrics are in French, but even if you don&rsquo;t know what she&rsquo;s saying, you can feel the contempt. On \u00ab\u00a0Magazine\u00a0\u00bb she&rsquo;s spitting in your face as she seethes:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Je viens pour toi<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Alors vas-y cours<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Je n&rsquo;te \u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/875469\/mandy-indiana-urgh-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often, I focus on recommending older media that isn&rsquo;t currently getting a ton of attention. But this week, I can&rsquo;t [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}