Millions of years ago, Henry met Sam at All Tomorrow’s Parties. They spent the evening talking about bands, and at 3am agreed to form one themselves.

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Over the next decade, they played together in deadly serious art-rock bands, self-indulgent jam sessions, and high-concept covers acts, finishing each other’s sonic sentences and developing an intuitive mutual understanding — and then in 2019 formed Dog Unit with the best players from the above outfits: drone-dub bass maestro James and motorik drummer Lucy, the most reliable timekeeper this side of an atomic clock.

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Within minutes of starting to play together, there was immediate musical rapport: a combination of cacophony and restraint, ridiculousness and beauty, pulse and pause, and complexity and purity — an eight-armed sea creature playing entrancing drone, tactile texture, slow-mo polyrhythm, and skewiff riff.

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Since 2020, Dog Unit have released two critically acclaimed EPs and soundtracked BBC football drama Jamie Johnson. In 2023 they will release a series of singles to coincide with their residency at Servant’s Jazz Quarters in Dalston.