Ambitious Brighton duo Nordic Giants have, like their slow-burning to freak-out crescendo post-rock songs, been steadily building momentum since they first emerged a couple of years ago.

Appearing on stage, masked by semi-shamanic feathered outfits, their musical performance always had a strong visual element, though with this launch show for their new single, Speed The Crows Nest, this was an audio-visual spectacular.

The band’s biggest show to date, this sold-out event, organised by website Brighton Noise, served as a fantastic showcase for some of the city’s best acts. Cello-centric one-woman band Abi Wade created haunting soul layered on trip-hop and melancholic strings. Clearly nervous, her accomplished music and sheer talent did the talking.

The main support, the grunge-looking but more shoegaze-sounding Saturday Sun played subtly affecting psychedelic-folk with note-perfect falsetto vocals in the vein of Tim Buckley or Thom Yorke. These two quieter acts, though, gave no hint at the sheer volume of what was to come.

With striking, thoughtful short film projections and lighting matching dynamic shifts between electronic and organic, delicate and bombastic, vocals came from the enchanting Freyja and digital versions of absent singers. Thoroughly spellbinding, this professional yet passionate performance was a bold statement of intent few could argue with.