The aforementioned Radiohead are clear antecedents, especially on Diamond Stuff, both in their willingness to experiment and deconstruct the tenets of the rock band and in the way they combined sonic beauty and unsettling, dystopian landscapes in their music. From the lush and baroque Marlene Dietrich and album closer Ascending Forth - which sound like Jeff Buckley workshopping with Wild Beasts and US band Young Jesus - singer Geordie Greep intones his obtuse and dramatic lyrics in a veritable croon, warm and resonant as it corrals the words into overtly expressive shapes. Cavalcade delights in the way it embraces extremes. Their debut Schlagenheim caught the ear of critics and fans alike in 2019 but now, barely two years later, they’ve taken that dizzying debut and both expanded and refined it. Of the new crew that includes Black Country, New Road, Squid, Dry Cleaning and many more, black midi stand out as the band taking things deeper and further out towards the perimeter, with brazen musical leaps and bounds. With the underground jazz scene taking its divergent strands overground to international acclaim and songwriters and players of the experimental indie rock persuasion - who were barely born when Radiohead released OK Computer - soaking up and reimagining all manner of musical influences.

The new wave of prodigious, forward-thinking and bold UK musicians continues unabated as we near the middle of 2021.

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