Moderate Rock

Outlander have been teasing greatness for a while now. Although the Birmingham slow-rock four-piece have made that as difficult as possible to discover by naming their band the same as a bunch of bands before them, each successive release since their formation in 2013 has been better than the one before it. Out this month, their debut full-length ‘The Valium Machine’, finally fulfills every promise. It is five songs, gently and carefully unfurled over more than 40 minutes, for fans of novel takes on post-rock.