One to watch: HMLTD

This guitar band with a taste for the avant-garde are the latest outfit to be hailed as rock’s savioursIn a windowless room in Old Street, east London, a female mannequin presides over an alarmingly sharp-looking knife, an overflowing ashtray and two types of fake blood. Pink velvet is draped on the walls, a labyrinthine mesh of cables obscures the floor. Crammed in this recording studio, six extravagantly attired 20- to 22-year-olds spend 10 hours a day, six days a week, concocting an ele