Fiction's new single, Careful, coming out ahead of their debut LP on Moshi Moshi later this year, is produced by James Ford, and shows what remarkable leaps the band have taken in the past year. Restrained and subtle, propelled by a bass line, flecked with claps of percussion, and devastatingly attacked by short blasts of guitar. It whets the appetite beautifully for the new record.

Fiction - Careful by moshi moshi music

Read an interview with Fiction in the current issue of Tank Magazine

He's an odd one is Bullion; from his wonderfully crafted but utterly undanceable DJ sets, to mixing up Beach Boys and J Dilla on his 'Pet Sounds In The Key of Dee' - which was anything but a standard mash up album, but more a beat-laden abstraction of the original.

He then put out a full length of equally abstract beats on Young Turks called 'You Drive Me To Plastic' in 2010, then a couple of months back dropped 'Say Arr Eee' on his soundcloud and seemed to be totally starting again. Moving away from brain melting hip-hop productions and into an ambient neon fantasy world.

'It's All In Sound' continues that movement, and it owes as much to The Beta Band and Miles Davis as it does to dance music.

It's All In Sound by Bullion

Are we slowly seeing a return of the bombastic in the underground? After lo-fi and chillwave all made slacking, underachiving and grotty insouciance the mood de jour. Recently we've been witnessing something more resembling high-fidelity in our musical youth, who appear to actually be interested in crafting sounds, rather than just getting songs down on a four-track and relying on hip nonchalance rather production quality.

So even though Swim Deep's member's look like they should be drinking cans of cider outside Tesco on Kinsgland Road, their music heralds something more adventurous than their love of denim jackets might suggest.

Out on Chess Club on May 14th.