Possibly not on a mission to cheer everybody up, Kent trio Coldbones have crafted a concept album about irrevocable environmental collapse. Outlining two possible catastrophes, The Cataclysm initially devotes itself to rising sea levels, before changing tack to depict a charred, barren landscape. Almost inevitably, the band’s chosen medium for these bulletins from the end times is instrumental post-rock, a sound frequently evocative of some seriously bleak shit going down. They’ve certainly mastered the genre’s crescendo-driven blend of moody fragility and expansive heaviness, while bringing in post-punk tension on Collapse and widescreen prog on The Burning Of The Earth. Intentionally or not, tracks like Cleanse and Ruin suggest that a certain beauty could be found in the apocal...