It appears that the great Philly DIY punk trio Control Top isn't around anymore, which sucks. But Control Top hadn't released anything in a long time anyway, and I'd rather have a new band putting out records than a silent Control Top. Earlier this year, Alan Creedon and Alex Lichtenauer, two thirds of Control Top, announced that they'd formed a new bicoastal duo called Index, and they shared their debut single "Cellophane." Today, Index announce plans for Vis Inertiae, their first full-length.

Creedon and Lichtenauer started working together as Index last summer, sending electronic-influenced punk demos back and forth across the country. Creedon, still in Philly, wrote a bunch of songs and envisioned them with drums from his old bandmate Lichtenauer, who's now based in LA and who runs the great indie Get Better Records. Lichtenauer says, "When I heard ‘Fractured’ for the first time, I was like, ‘holy fuck,’ and then I went to go to my practice space and play it. And then when Al came to LA for the first time, which was late last summer, that’s when I feel like it really came together. It was like, ‘Oh, yeah, we can play these songs.’ And we just had so much fun doing it."

Index's debut album is titled Vis Inertiae, in honor of a Nietzsche quotation, and they recorded it in New York with the great heavy-music producer Arthur Rizk, who pushed Lichtenauer to combine conventional and electronic drums. Lichtenauer says, "What he pulled out of us was the electronic, industrial, nü metal stuff that we really wanted to be pulled out."

"Cellophane" opens the new album, and now Index share the second song, the jittery but fearsome attack "Fractured." Check it out below.

TRACKLIST:01 "Cellophane"02 "Fractured"03 "Glass Horizon"04 "Dissolve"05 "Endless"06 "Earth"07 "Paper Limbs"08 "Static Bloom"09 "Beneath The Fold"

TOUR DATES:7/15 - New York, NY @ TV Eye *7/16 - Washington, DC @ Pearl Street ^9/05 - Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room10/01-03 - Toronto, ON @ Project Nowhere Fest10/09 - Philadelphia, PA @ Thunderbird Hall* with Hunx And His Punx^ with Generacion Suicida

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