Recorded and mixed over a three-day span in March of 2025, then pressed on cassette quickly enough to be given away with their Which Direction Goes the Beam, which hit shelves in April, Bunker Intimations II finds Index for Working Musik at their most spontaneous and improvisatory. The nature of the recording seems to inspire the group to tap into the latent darkness found in their “real” songs and basically sounds like a 48-minute haunting. The songs rarely rise above the level of a cloaked whisper, scratchy violins carry the near-melodies, and the rest of the band sets the controls for the heart of spookiness. Only “Going to Heaven on the End of a String (Papal Version)” has vocals, the rest of the songs allow the space between the notes to fill in where the voices…
