Responding to the Graham Sutherland exhibition, Adventures Close To Home invite two exciting new acts to Oxford and the Basement, whose songs resonate with evocations of the British landscape and the histories contained therein.

Way Through are a pastoral punk duo originally from Shropshire, now residing in London. Informed by the field as much as the flyover, Way Through write songs which phase in and out with guitar, tapes, damaged drums and vocals. Using wrong-footed repetition, rapid interplay and free-looping happenstance the band create a ragged yet intuitive tapestry of sound.

'Their songs walk the streets of market towns, wait forever at bus stops and lose themselves in edgelands. Way Through join the dots between lost places and deteriorating histories. They don't have time to mourn the loss of England as it "marks yourself out and you can't wear black forever" according to closing song 'Denton Welch', inspired by the tragic life of the author/artist of the same name. The past can help us to see where we need to go next. Way Through aren't trying to make a nostalgic, backwards-obsessed record here, they've returned to the history all around us everyday and they sing about "your pulse being full of the past", but it's a past still present if you look hard enough.' (Adventures Close to Home).

Click here to read their interview in The Wire. 

The Bomber Jackets are a mysterious new London outfit, consisting of members from the group the Pheromoans. Contemporary art punk and crisp synth aesthetics collide against a distinct vocal style. Their cassette tape release, 'Larching' is out now on Night People Records.