On a hot and sweaty May night the ceiling of the Oslo bar in Hackney vibrates as BRUIT ≤ finish their sound check in the upstairs gig area, an encouraging portent of things to come. Before the French post-rock quartet take the stage Spafford Campbell and Mountainscape are here to warm things up.

Simly, Slift's fourth album Fantasia is a stripped back, prog-rock flavoured epic.

Gomi Kuzu Can is the third weird and wonderful album by JeGong, the collaborative project of Dahm Majuri Cipolla of Mono and Reto Mäder from Sum of R.

Shelf Lives dropped their first EP Yes, Offence back in 2022. Four years later, what does debut album release HypernormaL have to offer eager fans?

Twat Union isn't a movement to legitimise sex work. It is, instead, a deliciously in-your-face all-female punk sextet out to tackle subjects both taboo and mainstream.

Jagged City's debut EP There Are More of Us, Always sounds less like a studio album and more like a bootleg session recorded on somebody's phone.

On a cold, dark, rainy October evening, the incomparable and nearly indescribable Igorrr joined forces with American experimental metallers Imperial Triumphant and Italian computer-metal pioneer Master Boot Record to bring a special kind of noise to the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire.

French trio This Will Destroy Your Ears are back with third album Funland. Is it a carnival for the ears, or an auditory house of horrors? Let's see.

The latest offering from Edinburgh based purveyors of weird and eccentric audio curiosities, Bearsuit Records, comes from the enigmatically titled Eamon the Destroyer, and it's his most accessible release to date.

Blessings third album Blodsträngen (aka The Bloodline) should be circled and underlined on the new release calendar of any self-respecting metalhead.

How can a three-piece firstly make destructive levels of noise but refine it into a neat package bursting at the seams? Why Patterns show us how with their new release 'Screamers'.

Three years after their debut EP, does Hiroe's 6-track instrumental debut album do enough to make it stand out from other post-rock hopefuls?