Outfit Tickets

Many bands from Liverpool can struggle to deal with the weight of the city's musical heritage, just as many artists in the modern day struggle to justify early hype on blogs - Outfit have managed to dodge both those pitfalls by simply ignoring them.

Coming to the attention of the music industry with a couple of demos as far back as 2011, it took until earlier this year for the band to finally release an LP - and it was certainly worth the wait. Released through ultra-influential London label Double Denim, Performance uses a whole host of reference points, from obscure world music through to Orange Juice and Portishead, The Guardian called it "a hedonistic but haunting debut", giving 4 stars, with Clash Music going one further by naming it one of the year's great British albums.