With influences as varied as The National, Radiohead, Interpol and Nick Drake, Somerset indie rockers October Drift's heavy, pop-inflected rock is delivering a rejuvenating injection of fresh blood to the genre.
An immersive wall of distortion envelopes the powerful fragility of frontman Kiran Roy's vocals, while he paints a verbal landscape of introspection, despair and hope amid a sonic palette that evokes both the driving, spacious absorptivity of My Bloody Valentine and the poetic, visceral honesty of Nick Cave's lyricism.