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Includes unlimited streaming of Which Direction Goes The Beam via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. 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

Index For Working Musik are Max Oscarnold, Nathalia Bruno, Bobby Voltaire, Dominic Odair & Edgar Smith. Which Direction Goes The Beam is released on LP, CD and digital on 4th April 2025. Limited red and black vinyl editions are available, alongside a deluxe set coupled with an additional hour long tape, entitled Bunker Intimations II, limited to 50 copies and only available via Bandcamp or World of Echo.

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