Easy Listening (Free EP/name your price)

Fresh from touring Europe with tUnE-yArDs, Thousands mainman Kristian Garrard has released a record of his own, the stunning Easy Listening. But if you’re picturing a slick-haired Michael Bublé-alike swinging an old-timey microphone around his head, think again. Clocking in at an average seven minutes per song, this is about as ambient and experimental as music gets, and clever too. What you may mistake for synthesiser is really an electric guitar – answers on a postcard if you know how he got such a haunting, simmering effect. The Seattle native asks you to name your price for these four tracks and we reckon once you’ve given them the first spin, you’ll be moved to dig deep.