What would you expect to find between a mobile phone shop and a travel agents? A chemist's, a bakery, possibly even a bank. How about the home of one of brightest bands K'Gari?

In a way it makes sense, this understated setting makes a perfect place to meet a band that are sure to become one of the most talked about for many years….

The first thing that you notice stepping in from the busy streets of Chippenham to the home of K'Gari is that the mood suddenly becomes infinitely more relaxed. It's almost like you have been taken to the serene Western Australian island of K'Gari from where the band take their name. The soft lighting, gentle strumming of acoustic guitars and the brushed drum strokes only serve to put you in a mood of complete tranquillity.

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The exact same feeling can be drawn from watching K'Gari live and listening to their music. Just from looking at the crowd at their gig at Chippenham's Fizz Bar, you could see that there wasn't just a mix of ages in the venue. The Fizz Bar was awash with many different styles of clothes that traditionally would be associated with various styles of music. It was also noticeable that in the crowd there were many familiar faces from the growing Chippenham music scene, all of them looking suitably impressed.

Listening to K'Gari is like listening in a room on your own and with a huge crowd on a hot summer's day all at the same time. They have that unique ability to make the venue, where you're listening, turn into your bedroom and at the same time they can turn your bedroom into a vast festival field.

Their songs have the same acoustic feel as bands such as Turin Brakes and Starsailor; building up to the big sing along choruses that we have come to see from other bands like Coldplay and Radiohead.

The combined vocal harmonies of Ben Powell and Neil Ryles fit like a hand in a glove. There seems to be some sort of telepathic communication between them, knowing where the other is going in an instant. This is a unique skill that comes from a combination of sheer hard work and that other unknown factor that makes good performers great.

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In addition to the fantastic vocals, the songs are driven by great rhythm and they manage to provoke involuntary head shaking, foot tapping or whatever you do when you find something irresistibly catchy. I found myself singing along to songs after only the second listen and this only goes to show how accessible the music is. However, where most of songs that reel you in so quickly can be predictable, I'm still finding new things to listen to in K'Gari's music after seven or eight listens. This is a testament to good musicians who understand how to write a good song and then add that something extra that keeps you coming back.

Songs such as "Smile" and "Water Level Rising" have instantaneous hook in their choruses that you would be happy to have as part of a soundtrack to any evening barbeque, or blaring out of your car to draw attention to the fact that you listen to good music.

"Blood Red Sun" is a song that has quality stamped throughout it. This is a song that is designed for the sun setting on the Pyramid Stage. It drenches you in a magnificent swirl of musical orange glow, inviting the warmth of a summer evening into your ears and urges you to put up a tent in your back garden and not wash for a few days just so you can experience its full brilliance.

K'Gari are a band that have a very bright future ahead of them. Their songs are well crafted and they have an understanding of how a good song should work. On top of this, they are a bunch of likeable and modest men who just want people to listen to what they're up to.

They have more gigs planned for around Wiltshire in the future, so my suggestion would be to go and see them now before their home between a travel agents and a mobile phone shop becomes a home somewhere between number one and number ten in the charts.

Will Walder