In "Brooding", Strange Boy reveal an intense and graphic exploration of sexuality and guilt

There were also invited by Sigurðsson to play at a Bedroom Community showcase and contributed a track their Christmas compilation.

The visceral and affecting "Brooding" refines the dark sexual moods of '90s Trent Reznor b-sides into something elevated and arguably even more disturbed. It pushes Brunt's angelic vocal up-front against a backdrop of percussive and ambient crunch.

"It's essentially an attempt at a self-exorcism," explains Brunt. "I thought about how we spend so much of our time trying to be nice, good people that we often end up repressing our basest and most animalistic tendencies… There are some people - bullies, bigots, whatever - who take advantage of this that to get what they want. The song is like a response to those people; a release of pent-up frustration."

"I wanted to bare my teeth and indulge in an aggression that I don't really express in my day-to-day life. I played it to a friend when I first wrote it and they were like 'woah, I didn't know you had such dark thoughts!' In truth , we all have that ugly darkness inside us somewhere. Here is a glimpse at mine"

"Brooding" is taken from their upcoming debut EP titled Annunciation, which gets a release via their own Glass Guts label. Outside of Strange Boy, Brunt and Huxley work as songwriters and composers in various guises. Brunt has collaborated with Terry Riley, Anna von Hausswolff and Nils Frahm and will appear on his Frahm's next album while Huxley recenly scored a BBC documentary and has turned in remixes for the likes of Bedroom Community-signed James McVinnie.

"[The song] not all brute-like though," adds Brunt. "There are definitely moments of tenderness and vulnerability. From what I've seen, aggression often comes from a place of insecurity… perhaps that's what's going on here."