Every weekday, DIY’s new music know-it-all Neu brings you one essential new release to get obsessed with. Today’s Neu Pick comes from Chaika.

With its lyrical ruminations on creativity bordering on nonsensical, there’s an unhinged edge to ‘The Quietness’, the latest cut of derange noise from Chaika. Following the previously unleashed ‘The Mirror’ right to the edge, it showcases a band stretching their muscles and minds at every opportunity.

Written over two sleepless nights, that sense of a mindset pushed to the edge threads throughout the opening half of the seven minute opus. Pushed along by frenzied, desperate shouts not unlike those of fellow Leeds lot Hookworms’ psych mania, Chaika seem eager to break through their wall of noise from the off. It’s not until everything’s pulled back in its closing minutes that the Leeds group find any respite, a breathless melody replacing that wide-eyed madness.

Chaika play The Lock Tavern in London this Friday 4th March - warp your mind in preparation with the first stream of ‘The Quietness’, below.