WHICH DIRECTION GOES THE BEAM - Index For Working Musik's Second Album

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Artist:
Index For Working Musik

Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock
Neo-Psychedelia
Experimental Rock

Total Time:
40:26

Record Label:
Tough Love

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, Apple Music, Spotify

Release Date
April 18, 2025

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Product Description: RIYL: Brian Jonestown Massacre, Velvet Underground, TOY, John Cale, Wire, Dome. In this post Sounds world, the boundaries of Post Punk have not only broadened but splintered. And over the course of (now) four releases, Index For Working Musik have seen to using the sprawling boundaries to great effect, flexing a polyglot of styles to convey the language of the moment. On Which Direction Goes The Beam, the murky, distant ambience that was 2023's Indexé has been fleshed out, incorporating everything from the Brian Aldiss laced, ground lightning shudder of Dome, to the chamber-like arrangements of This Kind Of Punishment. There's even a candle flickering in the window for Think Fellers Union Local 282 that warmed these ears. And if you’re a fan of the great Dutch band, Trespassers W (who isn't?), the collective consciousness IFWM enunciates on here is a similar testament of a band growing more sure footed in the pursuit of not only knowing all the ways in, but carving a few of their own on the way out. And it's discerning releases like Which Direction Goes The Beam that keep us in the hunt. Long may they forge. - Tom Lax.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . Thursday's Bells (01:13)

2 . 2x1 . (02:58)

3 . Fog (You Just Don't Know) (05:15)

4 . X Says (03:01)

5 . 1898 . (01:18)

6 . Sparrows Hill (05:20)

7 . Sister (03:19)

8 . Halb Leib I (05:39)

9 . Brain Pan Farmer (01:10)

10 . Purple Born (08:02)

11 . Atahualpa (01:36)

12 .Pugilist (01:40)

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