Dragging The Needlework For The Kids At Uphole

Unbeknownst to it's members, Index for Working Musik was born on an evening in late 2019 amidst the discovery of a collection of faded b&w photocopies that had been marinating on the floor of a urine-alley in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona. Back home in London's cursed smog, they moved themselves and their 8-track studio into a basement in E8, where the project's gravitational pull gained strength, quickly developing into an unexpected collective with the incorporation of drummer Bobby Voltaire, double bass player E. Smith and guitarist J. Loftus. As the world shifted around them and the Plague Years followed, it became increasingly clear that they were not going to leave that small basement room. The scarcity of light or outer world presence was less a limitation, instead the main tool at hand, allowing the recording to stretch for boundaryless days in architectural isolation, and forcing them to make straight forward free guitar music, adopting a 'first thought, best thought' approach. The result of this period became a collection of music they were to name Dragging the Needlework for the Kids at Uphole, to be released via Tough Love on 17th February. 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.1. Wagner (04:54)2. Railroad Bulls (02:54)3. Athletes of Exile (02:!44. Narco Myths (0:22)5. Ambiguous Fauna (02:44)6. Isis Beatles (03:52)7. Palangana (03:09)8. 1871 (02:41)9. Chains (03:18)10. Petit Committee (02:27)11. Habanita (04:15)