Press play and Spinors come in like someone has kicked open a factory door during a power cut. "Choose to Believe" has grease on its hands, bright lights in its eyes, and a hook that knows exactly how to get a crowd moving. This is alternative rock with a steampunk coat, but the engine underneath is very current: post-truth panic, social media loops, shiny consumer...

With their single "Numbers Game," Grey Jacks has managed to build a deceptively inviting room inside a house that’s actively on fire. The foundation here is a slithering, almost hypnotic rock groove, driven by the lock-step pulse of Teddy Minton on drums and Howard Rabach on bass. It has that cool, coiled tension reminiscent of late-90s Radiohead, a sound that gets in your bones...