While working on their second album, two members of Mandy, Indiana — the Mancunian quartet fronted by a French valkyrie named Valentine Caulfield — were faced with their own corporeality. Drummer Alex Macdougall underwent surgery for a hernia and, after doctors found a lump, had half of his thyroid removed. Caulfield lost most of her vision in one eye. The 10-hour days that comprised the recording sessions could have broken them. Instead, the band’s distinctive sound — an alloy of industrial, post-punk, and ’80s neo-noir soundtracks — emerged titanium-plated and electrified. URGH is both headier and more visceral than anything Mandy, Indiana have made before. This isn’t body music or brain music; it’s spine music, homed in on the bony…

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