Dead Rat Orchestra use violins, harmoniums, logs, axes and pigeon flutes; folly snow-boxes, semi-strung guitars, home-wired glitchers and record player clunks; they use organ pipes like hunting horns, which are overblown like great whales. Their latest album was originally the soundtrack to Intrepid Cinema’s acclaimed BBC documentary The Guga Hunters Of Ness, which follows ten men on the Isle of Lewis as they embark on a traditional gannet hunt. The trio of Daniel Merrill, Robin Alderton and Nathaniel Mann have come up with a powerful score, with compositions seeded in hours of study of Hebridean folk song.