Local favourites // Drum Eyes

Minding my own business I was. Waiting for The Pipettes and minding my own business. Then, from the wings of the many-tunnelled sweat-box of Leeds' Cockpit, came DJ Scotch Egg armed with said picnic snack and a fearsome barrage of SNEStronica to temporarily blind me. Being average height (for a girl) I'm not a tall man, but fizzing through the armpits and shoulders of all before me like a Robin Hood arrow a bread-crumbed ball thundered into my right eye.

After this traumatic episode I'm loathed to hail the future projects of my nemesis, but Brighton based Drum Eyes are too good to ignore. Theirs is a world of boundless possibility, merging hardcore drums, 80s synths and a psychedelic take on structure to create music alien to convention. Their debut Gira Gira was out a few months back on Upset the Rhythm, but here's a taster of their madcappery.

Local favourites // Trash Kit

Lo-fi is currently very en vogue, but the flaw of any emerging scene is that, once the door is opened, all and sundry can stroll through with a roughly crafted demo and command undue attention from slathering labels.

Trash Kit, however, are one of the good ones. The release of their self-titled debut on local indie Upset the Rhythm supports their case. While it's defiantly ramshackle and chaotic, there's a wild energy and melody to be found among the fuzz and reverb that sets the girls above their peers. No more so than on Cadets, its tribal drums and war cries acting as an unrelenting call to arms for those tired of polished pop.

Head to Stereogum for more Trash Kit related goods.