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Macrocosmica - This Glasgow band, who feature one time members of Mogwai, Teenage Fanclub, the rather excellent Telstar Ponies and Bangtwister in their line up, are working on their debut album - a follow up to the Ad Astra mini album and the Space Geek EP (both on God Bless Records and both well worth your time). This, I guess, is a taste of things to come from the band, who've already been around for five years or so. It's some kind of forward advancing, post hardcore, post rock, post noise, post whatever you want mix of restrained powerful spiky aggression, power, and brooding wired-up jaggedness. Think Fugazi poking Van Der Graaf Generator with sticks (we name drop Van Der Graaf so much in some kind of subliminally blatant attempt to force you to go out and soak up almost everything they've ever done - start with Pawn Hearts if you haven't already). If you like those wired places that clever bands like Mogwai (who like to conceal the fact that they're clever and never are clever enough to conceal that fact), if you like those places, and the places the Notwist go, or Geiger Counter or Rothko or especially Motorpsycho - hey, this is a lazy list, sometimes a lazy list is the easiest way - and with these clever bands you know it's never ever as obvious as a list makes it seem and these names are mere reference points on a vague map that points you in the right direction. If you like it to get abrasive and to almost violently challenge you without taking the obvious routes that have already been followed by all the others then this is for you and it's very very good.