Manchester band Mandy, Indiana brings their noisy French-language rock to the world
don’t get around as much as they’d like. They’re a noise band out of Manchester, England, and it’s where they spend most of their days working real jobs between live gigs while letting their songs of distortion, electronics and a searing, often frantic energy do the traveling.
What Mandy, Indiana’s songs deliver on several EPs, singles, and, most recently, on their debut album, I’ve Seen a Way, is a sound that has been called noise, post-punk, underground, indie rock, and more. But “noise” is their preferred umbrella term for a wide palette of aggressive music, from the brooding, industrial, and atmospheric to some energetic tracks ready for the dancefloor.
At the same time, the songs are accented by the crucial energy and evocative French-language vocals of Caulfield, who makes her own kind of noise by reacting against war, sexism, and a world out of control. “I think every single line in it is something that was said to me or about me,” Caulfield says. “I’m just going to put the reality of things in front of you and then you can decide if you think that that’s okay or not.”
“There’s this young guy in South America who loves us and it’s funny because I think I have a weird parasocial relationship with every person who is actively into us,” she says. “I couldn’t give you a profile of our fans, but I know most of them by their first name. I feel like there’s a weird little group of people who follow us. I really like that.”
They had all been in bands, but what makes Mandy, Indiana different from their other forays was the presence of Caulfield, whose previous musical experiences were more formal and contained, including some classical. “I’d never done anything with somebody like her before,” says Fair. “I’d always been in a band with other guys of a similar age to me, and it was always English language.
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