Tom Robinson’s show on BBC 6Music is consistently one of the best for listening to new music on the radio (yes we’ve been on it), and with his Fresh on the Net website he puts up a number of tracks from new artists to get feedback from his listeners. This is how I came across Gymnast‘s Build A Boat, with the cello and sultry tones of Cathy Wilcock over a frantic beat making me sit up and listen.

Exploring the Manchester band’s Soundcloud it is the darker side that shines their productions like the reflective and moody Geneva with the chorus-line of harmonies on “wait for dark with a heavy heart” and the claustrophobic The Flood or the Fire