Ex-Easter Island Head live and rehearse with innumerable other bands in a huge dilapidated mansion just outside of Liverpool known as the Lodge. Rent is dirt cheap and extra affordable due to housing benefit laws, everyone's a member of each other's band, and improvisation is king. One ex-resident told me, "Hearing somebody start to play down there [in the basement] was like a magnet, and every day became an endless jam with revolving cast members."

This week, E-EIH are releasing their new mini-album, Mallet Guitars Two/Music for Moai Hava, a record of repetition and rumbling resonances so beguiling that it's easy to see how making it could have absorbed whole days. The record's highlight, the prosaically titled "Mallet Guitars Two Second Movement", brings to mind Rhys Chatham's seminal work with tone, and John Cage's rhythmic sensibilities as filtered through early Clogs releases. The two diverging guitar tones here feel like the carefully digitized mechanics of an old steam train; one representing pistons as delicate as sewing needles, the other the train's glorious steam plumage.

[Mallet Guitars Two/Music for Moai Hava is out now via Low Point]