With a stated aim to emulate Lightning Bolt, the sound of "Here Come the Hurricane" falls somewhere between that and (at times) a kind of instrumental Big Black, with a healthy dose of shoegaze and space rock thrown in for good measure. It’s …

There is genuine grandeur from the outset, but the production is clean and lacking in needleless pomp.  This album intrigues so much by way of shade and tone from the outset and by the end you realise you have witnessed something truly special. By Matt Kerry

Matt Bentley is a singer songwriter hailing from Leeds (where else these days? It seems like every other CD we’ve reviewed recently has come from Leeds) and plying a quirky, upbeat type of melancholia, if that isn’t too much of a contradiction. Think I …