London-based indie-rock trio who have recently been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize for their eponymous debut album.

Towards the end of 2006, Tom Herbert, Leo Taylor and Dave Okumu, three friends with impeccable musical pedigrees, (including Roisin Murphy, XX Teens, Amy Winehouse, Paul Epworth, Polar Bear and Bugz In The Attic), embarked on what was originally intended as a solo project for Dave. Discovering the worked better as a band, a beautiful album gradually emerged and The Invisible was born.

Sick of too-easy comparisons with Bloc Party and TV On The Radio (the other two indie-rock bands with black lead singers) The Invisible came up with their own definition: Experimental Genre-Spanning Spacepop.

If you can't quite picture what that sounds like, then how's about this: The Invisible make ambitious and skillfully crafted slices of sumptuous music, wide-ranging in their diverse influences and uncompromising in vision. Theirs is a world where Prince, Sonic Youth, Queens Of The Stone Age, Shuggie Otis and Radiohead are immersed in fruitful creative dialogue. Classical, medieval church music and more digitized dance sounds all simmer beneath the surface too.

The band have spent the last 6 months touring with the likes of Doves, Foals and Jack Penate, and their eponymous debut has been nominated for this year's Mercury Music Prize.