With only 6 weeks left until Camden Crawl 14 fills the streets of North London with some of the best new alternative sounds of 2014 the festival has announced the addition of further acts to the bill.

With a new album on the horizon, this year's event sees London’s very own Dry The River make their long awaited return to the festival. They are joined by of the moment Canadian songwriter Sean Nicholas Savage on an Electric Ballroom dream bill already overflowing with amazing North American talent including of Montreal, Au Revoir Simone and Jeffrey Lewis & The Jrams.

Over at Dummy’s electronic marathon SOPHIE will present his sonic assault of pop hooks, hyperreal sound design and club rhythms on an unrelenting bill at the Jazz Café whilst Big Deal, Thumpers and The Crookes bring their infectious brands of alt-guitar based pop to the festival’s stages.

CC14 also knows how to make a bit of a punk-noise racket with the likes of Nai Harvest, Youth Man, The Black Tambourines, Gang, Abjects and the truly bizarre Vodun newly added to the line-up.

Comedy at this years festival has two outlets curated by The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society and SHAMBLES. 

All told CC14 festival's 25 locations spanning the two mile stretch of NW1 will play host to over 250 live artists, DJs and specialist fringe events throughout the festival during the Summer Solstice June 20 – 21.

Further details and ticket purchasing can be accessed at the events website here.

Imagine a less conversational Arab Strap and you're part of the way to describing the laidback sounds of Dan Lyth & The Euphrates. They employ a broader sonic palate (brass and glitchy, grimy electronica fill out dreamy second track 'Four Creatures') and there's far less melancholy but it's there nevertheless in the eight examples of the band's lovelorn sound available here.

Benthic Lines is the group's first album in this incarnation and you could probably describe what they do as chamber pop. Yet it has folk elements mingled into it along with parts that recall Philip Glass (viz the backing vocals on 'Earth Broke Its Vow') thereby making them an interesting and hard to pin down prospect.

Five years in the making Lyth's intention was to record as much of the work as possible outdoors, no matter what the climate in Dunfermline or further afield threw at him and the band. Whether the results of that effort are actually very evident in the overall sound across the eight tracks is hard to say. No shouted demands to get off property or lorry reversing noises make their way inadvertently into the mix so in the main the listener has to take it on faith that fields and rooftops were stood upon as the tracks were laid down.

There is though quite a feeling of spaciousness, or at least of not being overly enclosed, within the album's production so that's maybe attributable in the end to the trips to Uganda, Australia, Turkey etc. more than talented work behind the mixing desk. Whatever the minutiae of the process and hoops gone through or imposed for the making of the work the results more than adequately speak for themselves. Benthic Lines could well herald the advent of a contemporary act to rival the cult status of The Blue Nile. 

 Benthic Lines is available from iTunes (here) or from Armellodie Records (here).