If you’ve ever wondered what the end result of throwing Melvins head honcho Buzz Osborne, circa ‘Ozma’, much-missed Voivod axtronaut Denis ‘Piggy’ D’Amour, the drumkit of Meshuggah’s Tomas Haake and an octopus into an atom-smasher and then decanting the remains into the Large Hadron Collider would sound like then wonder no longer, as Loincloth has you covered.

More than an ‘ambient’ recording, Prospect Of The Deep Volume One is both mesmerising and engaging, haunting and haunted, firmly establishing a world of sound that we can but hope will be revisited in subsequent volumes.