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It’s not uncommon to suggest that we live in a post-genre musical era – but all too rarely does the discussion then move on to how we might find alternative coordinates to collectively describe sounds. If you did want to do that, though, you could do worse than take lessons from club music. For a long time before the streaming era sent everything off in every direction, DJ-led culture was adept at finding patterns in flux.

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For Basement, the post-hardcore rockers hailing from Ipswich, their story is one of promise and unpredictability. With their debut, 2011’s I Wish I Could Stay Here, they took the scene by storm, only to disband after their second album the following year. They had left their mark so deeply though, in a sense it didn’t feel like they went away.  

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