While it's easy to associate the sonic might of And So I Watch You From Afar with a dank bar and your mate Ricky's grisly head wound, the boys from Belfast (or thereabouts) have captured something rather special with 'BEAUTIFULUNIVERSEMASTERCHAMPION', fusing their typically relentless post-rock with some truly gorgeous melody-bending. Download the six-minute wonder for free from Soundcloud, while over on [link]asiwyfa.bandcamp.com[/link], you've been invited to name your price for ASIWYFA's mind-crushing Letters EP, which, 15 months on, is still among our favourite Irish Extended Plays ever. A more gush-worthy band, I've yet to discover.

And So I Watch You From Afar - BeautifulUniverseMasterchampion by TLOBF