Mandy, Indiana are searching for an unlikely revolution
thefader.comMandy, Indiana are often described as a Manchester band, but in reality, their links to the city are loose. “I left for a reason,” the band’s co-founder Valentine Caulfield says from her native France, “because I fucking hate it.” She speaks with the same withering tone that makes her band, co-founded with Scott Fair, so bracing to listen to (Fair also feels little kinship with Manchester beyond personal ties, and has also left it behind).
The band’s dismissal of the English city they formed in is just a taste of the barely concealed rage simmering on their debut album i’ve seen a way, released last month.
Caulfield is a fascinating vocal presence in Mandy, Indiana. She sings in her native French and often uses her voice more as a texture than a messaging service.
Her shrieks pierce a song like “Peach Fuzz” just as much as the synth player Simon Catling or Alex MacDougall’s relentless drumming.
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