What’s really impressive about These Monsters, let alone the fact they are such a young band, is how they manage to sum up so many different sounds and moods is such little time. It is as much a chill out piece of ambience music as it is an energetic hardcore record. They seem to have managed to take all the best bits from say; Sigur Ros, Mogwai, Mars Volta and Godspeed You Black Emperor! Seamlessly combine them with Refused and Tool, took the best parts of all of these elements and them effortlessly filtered them out into flowing, continuous pieces of music that will stay in your heart for a long time to come.

There isn’t a moment on this album where you begin to get bored or question the choices made, it really is that good. Even the fact that there are no gaps between the tracks making this actually in total 25 minutes of uninterrupted instrumental music does not distract or deter the listener’s ambition to wish this EP would never end. And on final track ‘Dust and Ivy’ an 8 minute epic finish to the EP, it all comes together in fantastic style as the reasonably serene atmosphere comes to a crashing end accompanied by adrenaline and a fantastic saxophone solo and ultimately a really good feeling once over.

Considering their live act, and the stunning work they’ve produced here, These Monsters are headed for big things in the future, make sue you pick a copy of this up for only 2 quid from the These Monsters website.