Andrew McDonald, Journalist

Slow Focus is menacing, danceable, introverted and wide reaching; it is still a wonderfully hard sell and hardly to suited to pop tastes, which makes it all the more essential and truly one of 2013’s best albums.

For all the praise that can be heaped upon the album’s ideas, the result is frustratingly shallow. The experimental edge never really has room to move and simply serves to constrict the album’s shimmering grooves.

With an encore of gems Punch In The Face and Never Had So Much Fun, there was little to long for from a night that solidified the band’s position of greatness.

This is fascinating and deep experimental electronica that never loses sight of its danceable pop goals

The album is without doubt better than Lynch’s 2011 hit and miss Crazy Clown Time; it never falters in its tone or pursuit of its vision

Retox’s YPLL isn’t the art rock saviour it may be touted as, but it’s a nonetheless impressive, aggressive and forward-thinking fiery record, deserving of any punk’s record collection for 2013.

Whilst Mono’s recorded output may be in danger of falling into derivative crescendo-core post-rock cliché, live they are as powerful as ever and a true testament to the potential power and majesty of instrumental rock.