Jose Gonzales is best known as a solitary performer, but playing with Junip on Monday he demonstrated how dynamic his songwriting can be.

Keyboards swirled and layers of percussion built on the foundations laid down by his raw and rhythmic guitar playing. Hypnotic, droning synths took songs that were essentially folk at their roots, and turned them into something that closer resembled Krautrock.

Rewind to the years before the humble Swede was impressing audiences with his cover of The Knife’s Heartbeats and you can trace the beginnings of Junip back to the 1990s. The band went on hiatus but have just finally released their debut album Fields – an atmospheric folk-influenced record from which all of Monday’s set was drawn. As Gonzales modestly thanked the audience and introduced songs you could tell that few onlookers were familiar with the setlist, but reactions got warmer and warmer as the night went on, leaving a visibly pleased band by the end. A handful of drunken chatterboxes put a dampener on quieter moments of the set early on, sparking a steady stream of angry glances from the front rows. But further into the show, Junip’s cascade of sound either drowned them out, or converted them to listeners.