If you’ve never heard The Utopia Strong before, the band might sound like the start of a bad pun; a snooker world champion and two psychedelic wizards walk into a bar…

However, the punchline is no joke. Experimental obsessives Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi and Michael J. York leave their past lives at the door; stepping into a brave new world of looping modular synthesizers, crystalline chimes and cosmic delays that seem to spiral ever upwards.

We’d say listen to piano experimentalist Tim Hecker or avant-garde Australian jazzers The Necks in preparation, but really, The Utopia Strong need to be seen to be believed.