Floating around In Orbit with Buttonmoon is like playing a bit-part role in a moodily soundtracked art-house sci-fi horror flick. Dark ambient industrial? Yup.

Calgary metallers Divinity bring down The Singularity, a maelstrom of hooky and progressive technical metal that sounds like the end of everything you know.

It may be cold and dark outside, but it’s all hazy summer sun and smokerings in the psychedelic pop-gaze of Scots three-piece North Atlantic Oscillation.

Senser released one of the most important British records of the nineties. If we’re lucky, new album How To Do Battle might do the same thing for the noughties.

Porcupine Tree head honcho Steven Wilson’s latest solo outing gets the ambient-drone soundscape treatment from a diverse set of knob-twiddlers on NSRGNTS RMXS.

Engineers are awesome. Three Fact Fader is awesome. Your long slow summer of narcoleptic and narcotized musical dreamscapes starts right here, right now.

Enter Shikari are a muddled proposition on paper… and also on sophomore album Common Dreads. But there’s plenty of fun lurking in the maelstrom, too.

The Solemn Truth EP is five tracks of gothic drone hymns; John 3:16 has an ear for atmosphere, but these sound like little more than sketches of a dark place.

The second album from Alan Moulder’s latest protégées BM Linx, Black Entertainment somehow straddles electro-rock pop and Krautrock with a mixed results.

BM Linx have found themselves taken under the wing of production legend Alan Moulder; unsurprisingly, “Kids on Fire” is an enormous slice of lush dancy alt-rock.