I feel like the title of this album is a general statement to the world at large; there’s always strife, anger, rage, and a general consensus that everything is fucked up. After a while, disaster after disaster, there’s only so much words can say before a general vocal stim comes out and URGH is the perfect example of that unfettered noise. Whether or not Mandy, Indiana intended for the title of their album to represent this is unbeknownst to me but it’s what I came away with. That, and I also came away with one of the best experimental, noise, industrial albums of 2026.

URGH initially caught my attention after I saw a promo of theirs on Facebook with Magazine playing as the main attraction. Underlying and bassy rhythmic noise begins the song with metallic bells coming into the party before infectious vocals filled with animosity fill the scene. The smattering of anticipatory drums leads into tense synths that build into a siren-like dystopian noise wall. The halfway point transforms into danceable techno, a break from the ferocity, before heading back into the lethality that makes the track so addictive.

Gonna have to go ahead and give big props to A Brighter Tomorrow. The sounds of birds chirping in a loop as if you’re stuck in some sort of simulation, eerie synths straight out of a horror movie that makes you feel as if you’re caught in some sort of loop. A dragging synth line comes off as deep, bass-filled heartbeat. The vocals match rhythm, more dragged out, not as chaotic, somewhat melancholic yet still filled with emotional heft.

The last song on the album I’ll Ask Her is another absolute stellar show; a dog barks before bass punches me right in the gut. Spoken word, like slam poetry filled with rage, and scorching, screeching synths set the scene. As the song goes on, as the message continues to filter through a raw lens, the beat becomes much more oppressive till the very end.

There’s another seven songs to discover on the album as well from the whirling and cranking beats of is halt so to the marching like rhythm of Dodecahedron to the collab they have with fellow musician billy woods. But the three songs listed above are my favorites of favorites.

Mandy, Indiana is an amazing breath of fresh air; there are a ton of experimental and noise acts out in the void who sacrifice production over the sake of being odd or different or for wanting their music to sound like that – so I’ve been told and so I’ve read a thousand times over. Mandy, Indiana is living proof that your music can be odd and weird and violent and filled with rage while being in underground genres and completing a full production cycle. They’ve a new fan in me.