Remember Control Top? God, that band ruled. Control Top came ripping out of Philadelphia's DIY punk underground in 2018, and they made some really great songs. "Type A"? "Chain Reaction"? Bangers! Control Top's Covert Contracts album came out in 2019, and they were still playing shows as recently as 2024, but I guess they broke up somewhere along the way. Now, two of the three former Control Top members have a new band called Index, and their debut single is out today.
Index are a bicoastal duo, with bandmembers Alan Creedon and Alex Lichtenauer based in Los Angeles and Philadelphia. Lichtenauer runs the excellent label Get Better Records, and Index's new song "Cellophane" comes out on that label today. Index recorded it at Show Me The Body's Corpus studio, and heavy music specialist Arthur Rizk produced it. It's a feverish, commanding synth-punk basher that's a lot closer to hardcore than Control Top ever got. Here's what the duo says about the track:
"Cellophane" is a song about self-deception and the rituals we perform to convince ourselves we're holding it together.
Musically, we wanted to move away from anything riff-based and write in a way that felt fluid and unstable. The two of us function as a single organism, threading through shifting time signatures rather than locking into them. We were interested in the physicality of electronic body music pushed through a hardcore framework. Something precise and controlled, but still capable of impact in a room.
Below, check out "Cellophane" and Index's upcoming live shows.
TOUR DATES:
6/25 - Los Angeles, CA @ Non Plus Ultra
7/15 - New York, NY @ TV Eye *
7/16 - Washington, DC @ Pearl Street ^
* with Hunx And His Punx
^ with Generacion Suicida
