Alan Creedon and Alex Lichtenauer used to be two thirds of the great Philly DIY punk trio Control Top, and now they're the two members of Index, a new electronic-influenced punk duo with a heavy, exciting sound. Next month, they'll release Vis Inertiae, the debut album that they recorded with Sumerlands' Arthur Rizk at Show Me The Body's Corpus studio, and we've already posted their songs "Cellophane" and "Fractured." Today, they drop a nasty new one on us.
Index's latest single "Earth" doesn't sound much like the Band earth, but it did make me think of Earth's contemporaries in the Melvins. It's a mean, guttural churn of a track, but there are some serious alt-rock hooks embedded in all that smeared guitar fuzz and thunderous drum tone.
In a press release, the duo says, "'Earth' is one of the places the record shifts modes. It’s built on repetition rather than impact, and it gets somewhere strange through patience instead of force, but it’s still recognizably us. We wanted the album to feel like a body of work, not a playlist." That's a noble goal, and the song rocks hard without sounding too much like the previous two Index singles. Check it out below.
Vis Inertiae is out 9/25 on Get Better.
