Self-described as ‘London prog’, The Orchestra (For Now)’s ‘Plan 76’ EP finds the seven piece attempting to ‘refine rather than complicate’ their distinctive fusion of baroque indie hooks, post hardcore breakdowns and touches of jazz.

‘Impatient’ opens the album in stop-start fashion before delving deep into the avant-garde orchestral dramatics that have served the band so well – all walls of guitar and faltering drums. ‘Hattrick’ follows with (extremely) loud-quiet moments, all with a gothic edge, before morphing into a blend of strings and voice recordings. Once things draw to a hush, there’s an admission that can’t help but peak your interest: ‘I was drunk, what did I say?’; ‘I did not kill that man’… It’s a whodunnit in song form that took this writer back to The Cooper Temple Clause’s ‘Murder Song’.

‘Amsterdam’ is another intense and unnerving 4 and a half-minutes of post rock noise that recalls Nordic Giants, while ‘The Administration’ continues to ask questions to which there may not be a suitable answer: ‘What the fucking hell was that for?’ With stabbed and mathy guitar hooks facing against dramatic strings, the band admit: ‘I called up the administration, there’s nothing they can do…’.

Recent single ‘Deplore You/Farmers Market’ (one of the first songs the band wrote) rounds off the EP with an art rock-meets-huge pop sound that builds and builds into something you just can’t shake off.

You should make a plan to add ‘Plan 76’ to your listening list asap. You won’t regret it.