Mandy, Indiana have shared the latest single from their upcoming album ‘Urgh’ – listen to ‘Sicko!’ featuring rapper Billy Woods here.
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The track, which is built on a pounding techno framework, sees Woods’ vocals arrive over the top of an intense, industrial-adjacent sound to make something different from the previous singles the four-piece have shared from the album: ‘Magazine’ and ‘Cursive’.
Of working with Woods, one half of the duo, Armand Hammer, said: “We wanted to create something with an artist we love, who’s been inspiring to us. Woods is such a unique voice in hip-hop, his words are so expressive and this track definitely adds a different dimension to the record.”
The song’s video, meanwhile, is a collaborative effort for which seven different filmmakers worked on a 30-second segment each – check it out here.
“Social media has changed the way we consume art and music, often meaning that we rarely see a full music video in the way it was intended to be experienced.” the band said of the video. “For ‘Sicko!’ we wanted to try something different, leaning into the way people consume art on social platforms. We asked creators to make 30osecond films based around ‘sickness’ as a theme, drawing inspiration from the track.
“It was an experiment to see what a music video might be like if we present distinct, often conflicting, visual styles side-by-side. The videos were then matched with different sections of the track in a sequence that felt right. By moving through and watching each short, you will hear the full song.”
‘Urgh’ is out on Friday (February 6), and it’s available to pre-order and pre-save here.
The album saw all four members of the Manchester-via-Berlin band involved in the songwriting process, with guitarist Scott Fair producing the album alongside Gilla Band bassist Daniel Fox. It was written during a residency at a studio house on the outskirts of Leeds and recorded across Berlin and Manchester during a period in which both vocalist Valentine Caulfield and drummer Alex Macdougall underwent multiple rounds of surgery.
The experience influenced Caulfield’s writing on an album that’s both personal and reflective of the state of the world, her lyrics dealing with topics including “sexual assault, systemic indifference and the omnipresence of pain”.
The band are heading out on tour next month, too, with four UK dates including a show at London’s Heaven. Eight European dates follow in April, including shows in Paris and Berlin – find tickets here.
Mandy, Indiana’s 2026 UK and European tour dates are:
MARCH
25 – Heaven, London, UK
27 – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
28 – Room 2, Glasgow, UK
29 – Rough Trade Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
APRIL
8 – Les 4 Ecluses, Dunkirk, France
9 – Petit Bain, Paris, France
12 – Bumann&Sohn, Cologne, Germany
14 – Huset, Copenhagen, Denmark
15 – Urban Spree, Berlin, Germany
16 – MS Stubnitz, Hamburg, Germany
17 – Roadburn, Tilburg, Netherlands
18 – Motel Mozaique, Rotterdam, Netherlands
NME named ‘Urgh’ one of the most anticipated album releases of 2026, writing: “Mandy, Indiana’s second album – and first for respected New York label Sacred Bones – isn’t for the faint-hearted. In the first 10 minutes alone, it clatters and clangs, erupts with vocalist Valentine Caulfield’s chilling howls, and takes things to the edge.
“But there are also moments of lightness, of melody, of the thrill of four people’s ideas becoming one boundaryless force, setting ‘Urgh’ up as an early contender for one of 2026’s most intriguing records.”
The band released their debut album, ‘I’ve Seen A Way’, in 2023. NME wrote that the album “glows with experimental, urgent post-punk that champions resistance and chaos,” adding: “There’s an epic, cinematic scope to the way synths and drums clash and pulse, a dark blockbuster of discordant noise. There are apocalyptic flood siren sounds, and noises that sound like a wounded creature from a monster movie.”
