Listen: Gaps – When I'm Gone

Seven days ago nobody had a clue who bedroom recording project Gaps were; and to be fair, a week has passed and thanks to a total social media blackout, we’re still none the wiser. So what do we actually know about Gaps? Well they’re from Brighton, one of them is a bloke called Ed and they’re experts in the field of spectacularly melancholy alt pop. Their first three song drop was followed up by ‘When I’m Gone’ yesterday and it’s almost certainly the pick of the bunch, serving up an oddly seductive concoction of despondent acoustic guitar strums, maudlin female vocals and clandestine percussion.

Created by, in their own words, ‘seagulls, a guitar, laptops and red wine’ Gaps manage to convey feelings of such poetic despondency it’s hard to label them as mere students of laptop wizardry; this lot, whoever they may be, are the real deal.