A gothic romance for those that love to stand atop moonlit hills, overlooking barren chasms in suitably billowing clothing.

It is surely is time for The Bevis Frond to be more widely known and Focus On Nature is a great starting point.

The results here are elongated, dubbed-out explorations of a Sufi musical base, making this album one of the more fully realised recent combinations of acoustic/electronic music with field recordings.

Enslaved • Jo Quail • Svalbard • WayfarerIslington Assembly Hall, London, 06.03.2024 Photos by Dominic Hemy

Even for such acclaimed and experienced artists it is an achievement to do it all in a single afternoon, improvised session that covers such a wide musical ground.

Celebrating a new video and a forthcoming tour, Talie Rose chooses three albums that have proved inspirational to Teiger’s unique nu-prog sound…

The spectacular post-rock of Cold Waves Divides Us is going to be a truly special release this year and amongst the band’s output thus far.

As always, they deliver a confident and melodic blend of psych and Sabbath-worship as exploratory instrumental doom.

Kurtz was able to make a coherent musical whole out of all of those influences that he seems to have, something that is utterly listenable, no matter what your stance on aliens, UFOs, and similar phenomena is.

Avi C. Engel’s Too Many Souls is mesmerising and otherworldly, existing somewhere in the dream state between memory and prophecy: a visit there will leave the listener quietly transformed.

Savak are punk in the largely feelgood and melodic way The Modern Lovers or The Feelies were.

I hope we hear more from Scarred Lip as this set of songs sets a high standard of songwriting. Highly recommended.

Ihsahn pushes himself across new borders of creativity with this dual recording, resulting in a progressive adventurous metal album and an orchestral soundtrack of a movie that doesn’t exist.

Robert was a multidisciplinary artist of remarkable talent and diverse skills with an unusual level of productivity.

Listening to this album, it puts you right in the middle of a heavy storm, waiting for you by tackling the vibrations of Fripp and Eno, Klaus Schulze, Vangelis, Edgar Froese, and Popol Vuh.

Hashtronaut place more footprints on the well-trodden path of weed-themed stoner-doom – but they do it very well and have obviously been listening to the right bits of the best bands as influences.

It’s not surprising musicians want to rise to the challenge of meeting Jodorowsky’s muse. Bo Ningen are as good a band as any to try to reach the summit.

Beautifully textured instrumental, nautical post-rock which richly rewards greater attention when listening.

With the punk genre having greater mainstream exposure with bands like IDLES, Pissed Jeans may well find themselves the recipient of some extra attention.

There might be heartless fools around, but Munson is not fooling around with his art pop modern classical combination.

While this is their second album, Pending Past Mending is like an atom bomb dropping in the middle of the Mojave Desert and exploding in all of its mushroom glory to revealing how powerful the band’s sound is.