Cindy + Index For Working Musik

Upset The Rhythm presents…

CINDY
INDEX FOR WORKING MUSIK
Wednesday 26 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/z790b084119e

CINDY is a band built around the singing and guitar playing of Karina Gill, who she self-nurtured after finding an abandoned Squier Strat in her San Francisco apartment basement. Her intrigue soon grew into the band that is Cindy, who have found a worldwide following in their slow-moving, dream-pop world that shrouds Gill’s songs thanks to support from model-independent labels Mt. St. Mtn. [USA] and Tough Love Records [UK].
Cindy’s fourth LP, Why Not Now? It will be released this April. The music captured is simply out of necessity and introverted in delivery, but the songs contain vivid worlds and are quietly ambitious. With this latest batch, Gill pulled the process of making Cindy’s music even more inward. “Some of these songs were recorded as demos alone in my basement. I think that process set the tone for the record…Maybe it set up a kind of starkness,” she says. While the dream-pop tag is probably still relevant, this isn’t an algorithm-fed genre ambience. Gill’s vocal/lyrical presence can be as gently momentous as Leonard Cohen’s or as intellectually potent as any ’79-’80 Rough Trade post-punk. Cindy’s Why Not Now? is that muffled street symphony inside a passing daydream.
https://cindytheband.bandcamp.com/album/1-2

INDEX FOR WORKING MUSIK released their debut album ’Dragging the Needlework for the Kids at Uphole’ via Tough Love. 35 minutes of repeat phrased guitars, slow-clipped drums and dulcet vocals where the recurring landscape is the desert. Reel-to-reel-loops of Afghan music compete with the found sound overlays of voices recorded at the queue of the pharmacy and drum machines borrowed from Spanish heroes, channelling both far-off climes and snippets from a closer reality. It’s a strange psychic brew, built of imagined mysticism and domestic realities, of fever dreams and days that stretched into weeks of months.
https://indexforworkingmusik.bandcamp.com