Written when she was 19 and recorded live over two days, Where You Rest is the debut album by Brighton singer-songwriter Astra.
Astra, who has been beguiling Brighton audiences for the past couple of years, catalogues what she describes as "wanderings of love, longing and loss" in a mesmeric voice, by turns vulnerable and dreamy, powerful and direct.
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Heliconia, whose guitar-driven sound has been described as neo-shoegazer, have recorded an EP, an album and a download release for Isolation.
The three-piece, featuring Mike on guitar and vocals, Neil on bass and Jon on drums, gigged extensively in London and Brighton, honing their powerful live sound in the lead up to the release of their album Glad You Were Born in the summer of 2006.
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RomaKid are existing Isolation artist Michael Tickner, main man in Moth and guitarist/vocalist in Heliconia, and David MacPhail, whose previous band, Icer, provided Isolation with its first release.
The duo's brooding yet jagged electronica was first heard on Isolation EP Centre And Periphery back in 2004. More recently, RomaKid have released a self-titled album on Distant Noise Records.
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The Troy Enclosure is a project by Brandon Toy, who creates his dark, spare soundscapes at home on a Mac. His simple, uncluttered textures, offset by occasional walls of noise, have drawn comparisons with Labradford and Royksopp.
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Moth is a project by Heliconia guitarist/vocalist Michael Tickner, experimenting with ambient and sample-based sounds.
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Beguiling vocals and dense distortion defined the sound of Icer, whose only release, Astrid Calls, was the first by Isolation.
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