Something strange has been happening to electronic rock music recently. We all already know that bands like Klaxons are received ill-gotten awards for doing precisely what The Happy Mondays did at the end of the 1980s, and there are still fluorescent loons bouncing off the walls of grimy nightclubs every weekend, but when did this hybrid genre start giving people goosebumps? Urging me to stand on the roof of my house with arms outstretched like only a football montage and Nessun Dorma ever have done before?

Picking up where The Postal Service left off, the new single from Leicester’s Kyte is as mature a debut as their hometown’s greatest export, with an other-worldly take on the epic rock song. ‘Planet’ kicks off with a clear and chiming guitar introduction which, while not a challenging listen, winds around a minimal but steadfast bassline to gradually establish Kyte’s atmospheric assault. It is with the wheeling and swirling ghostly vocals, however, that you realise this band aren’t merely flirting with grown-up music. Echoed and looped “you see, you see” combined with synthesized eeriness marries the blast of a live show with gentle electronic ambience, and with B-side ‘Secular Ventures’ given a guttural remixing by avant garde Mercury nominee Maps, soon it won’t just be the casual MySpace user who knows about Kyte’s ethereal majesty.