There are some great contrasts on this record, from heavy duty drone to almost psychedelic dream like twists that, perversely, are almost soothing on a record this heavy. A terrific debut. – By Stuart Benjamin

If you like your post-rock (whatever that is) with a bit of a prog rock twist (whatever that is) then you should find every itch scratched by spending time in the company of these seven gloriously paranoid tracks. – By Stuart Benjamin

So, not one for the curious, rather one for the completists and old fans such as me, but I won’t listen to it half as much as I listen to Autobahn. By Stuart Benjamin

Like a bunch of kids knocking back Lucozade each song explodes with barely suppressed relentlessness. The longest track here – ‘Grass Shack’ – almost recalls very early Cardiacs with its change of pace and barely discernible, surreal lyrics, which is high praise indeed. By Stuart Benjamin

Riffs and saxes – but what riffs and saxes they are – on an album that should be as essential to you as air and water. – By Stuart Benjamin

I think in anyone’s eyes this album is a triumph, setting the agenda of what music can be and the emotions it can stimulate. Do yourself a favour switch off your mobile, take the phone off the hook and give yourself over to it. I truly hope it gets the recognition it so clearly deserves. Magnificent. – By Stuart Benjamin

A valiant effort (in spite of the geography) to keep the voice of rock ‘n’ roll dissent alive and well – and there are too few bands doing that these days. By Stuart Benjamin

I can’t wait for a full-length record. I really, really can’t. I’d really love to hear this group expand their ideas and their sound into an album length odyssey. – By Stuart Benjamin

The Rock ‘n’ Roll Rulebook? Forget it! ‘Loloismo’ at once lurches from industrial math-rock to rap, from Arabic influenced Spanish guitar to hardcore, with enough odd time-signatures to keep all you outsider music freaks happy. – By Stuart Benjamin

For my money, Hinterlandt have produced a really original record in Ensemble, which is really worth an hour of your time if you’re looking for a break from the self-imposed silo of your usual listening. By Stuart Benjamin

The band work through ten tunes that epitomise their drone/disco/psych punk dynamic. The whole album crackles along with dark energy. By Stuart Benjamin

The whole genius of Pop music in it’s truest form, is to distill the whole experience of life into something under three minutes long – and somehow, von Hausswolff manages to do this with whole alternate universes. Peerless. BY Stuart Benjamin

From the first note to the last you are drawn into a universe hermetically sealed in it’s own bubble where – for the length of the album, only its own rules seem to make sense. By Stuart Benjamin

Pylon is – to my mind – one of the great Killing Joke albums. Every song delivers in spades, with no hint of “oh that’s just filler”. It grabs your attention like the cops busting in your front door in a early morning raid, you sit transfixed as the whole thing bludgeons out of the speakers like truncheon bearing rozzers. By Stuart Benjamin

I really enjoyed my time with the Victorian punks, and thanked my lucky stars that I didn’t live then. Mind you, there’s as much injustice around today and you don’t have to look very far to find it – so where are all the witty, angry bands like The Men Who Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing? In short supply, I fear. By Stuart Benjamin

Too often is prog seen as a male dominated genre, the contribution of women to prog-rock has often been invisible, unnoticed and unsung. As a band-leader and creator of this quite remarkable record I think she’s more than proved that she can produce, what I think, is my favourite prog-release of the year. By Stuart Benjamin

With a second album – Everybody Come To Church – having just hit the shops and live dates with Public Image Limited and The Fall under their belts, Evil Blizzard’s fortunes are riding high. Leaving chaos, confusion, and monstrous progeny in their wake, the band pretty much have torn up the rock ‘n’ roll rulebook and are clearly set for great things. Stuart Benjamin caught up with Stomper from the band, taking five in his dressing-gown, slippers, and smoking a pipe in his book lined study…

Although I’d kind of got exhausted towards the end, I really enjoyed with monumental slab of off-beat prog and shall, no doubt, look forward to more from this unique band. – By Stuart Benjamin

So, what you’ll want to know is ‘Did the album live up to it’s expectations?’ Yes. I’ll even stick my neck out to say that this record is even better than The Dangers of Evil Blizzard. It’s fantastic. There. I said it. The genie’s out of the bottle now. By Stuart Benjamin

It’s perhaps unfashionable in a post-rock, math-rock, ironic-rock world, to be a band that really play well, that really sing well, and just bang out great tunes, but the Scaramanga Six really are the whole package. If you haven’t got into them what the fuck have you been doing all this time? Your record collection needs them and so do you. By Stuart Benjamin

There’s so much of interest in this album, I can’t praise it enough. The repeated playing of it reveals more and more musical strata, as well as providing an inspiration to find out more about the people, situations, and cultural references which provide the inspiration for these tracks. Do yourself a favour and add it to your record collection. By Stuart Benjamin