Glasgow’s Young Fathers have never shown signs of dancing to anyone’s tune but their own: from their startling debut EPs to their Mercury Music prize win – and subsequent shrug-off – they invented a sonic world that only they can inhabit. At times their effortless blend of hushed rap, ghostly chants, and murky, leftfield production brings to mind the early, lo-fi TV on the Radio, and their inerrant knack for melody; in another sense they share DNA with defiantly genre-bending hip-hop acts like Antipop Consortium or early TV on the Radio. But truthfully Young Fathers are a genre unto themselves: an instantly recognisable world, humming with dark, tape-warping synths, demented pianos, and harsh percussion, elevated by the ability of their voices to blend and diversify at will. Latest single ‘Lord’ is the newest exemplar of the group’s insistence that they make ‘pop’ music: it’s universal, ambitious and haunting, a pleading hymn blasted through a disintegrating bass speaker. After an uncharacteristically long silence, this third album can’t come soon enough.

Tue 20 Mar, 7pm at The O2 Institute, 78 Digbeth, Birmingham B5 6DY. £18 seetickets.com