An exploratory improvising group from middle England, The Exploits of Elaine’s music hits like a relic from a forgotten future: the tribal utopia of a post-capitalist Britain. Deconstructing a variety of musical forms (krautrock, gamelan, folk traditions, post-punk, no wave), these young men reshape them into ghostly shapes and ecstatic trance-outs with all the glee of school children let loose in the instrument cupboard. Their music is without leadership or prefiguration and revels in the joys of the immanent, the unexpected and the mistaken. They utilise whatever they can lay their hands on: detuned guitars, bike wheels, circuit bent keyboards and homemade percussion all feature prominently, whilst contact mics are used to ‘play’ the room.

It wasn't always like this, though. They formed as a group of teenagers in Telford back in 2002 with a desire to make short, cathartic instrumental songs inspired by the likes of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky. After a few years they moved to a more acoustic orientated sound utilising zither, banjo, mandolin and acoustic guitars and drawing influence from various folk musics.