Boe Weaver are the latest oddity to escape the eccentric backwoods of the Isle Of Wight. If you’re short on schlocky B-movie soundtrack jams, this is for you.

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.

Blueneck are bigger than the term post-rock, so they say, but second album The Fallen Host is as canonical it could be, in all the best possible ways.

One-man-band Rob Johnson takes a creditable crack at revitalising the instrumental acoustic guitar rock concept album genre with Upon A Painted Ocean.

Legendary progenitor of dark industrial ambient Lustmord returns with Other – a collection of moody post-apocalyptic soundscapes with some stellar guest guitarists.