Via Los Angeles and Philadelphia, Index is a subversive, electronics-influenced hardcore punk band. Former members of Control Top, Alan Creedon (he/him) and Alex Lichtenauer (they/them), started Index in the summer of 2025, and it quickly became clear the sound would grow out of their close friendship. Stripping away the dense orchestration of their previous band, Index leans into sweaty, visceral physicality, with Creedon’s guitar locked intuitively to Lichtenauer’s drums, navigating complex rhythms as one. The result feels as immediate as it does deliberate, two longtime collaborators reinvigorated by the act of making something new together.

Index share their debut single today, entitled “Cellophane,” out on Lichtenauer’s own Get Better Records. Written across coasts, just like its band members, the energetic “Cellophane” is an ever-shifting, slyly progressive collision of punk aggression and body-moving rhythm. It was recorded at Show Me The Body’s Corpus Studios, and was produced, mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Show Me The Body, Blood Incantation, Soulfly, and more).

Index says of the song:  “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.”

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