First takes of “New Bikini” and “Hailey” are born from opposite starting points

"Dag With Shawn" was recorded on Halloween day

It had become customary for the IVtet to end their shows every week with a standard or a tune – a practice that Parker embraced for wanting to give the audience something warm and familiar to take home after a long night of taking them out on creative limbs

as we set fire to cop cars and bashed in the windows of our own rising disenfranchisement

A co-release between BB*Island and Grapefruit

INDEX FOR WORKING MUSIK - Which Direction Goes The Beam LP Improvised First takes of “New Bikini”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 Index has been fleshed out, incorporating everything from the Brian Aldiss laced,