photos by Joe Branton
Heavy Blog Is Heavy is hosting the worldwide premiere of “No Such Thing As Now,” the new song by English instrumental progressive/math rock quartet POLY-MATH. The track marks the latest preview of the band’s fifth LP, Something Deeply Hidden, nearing release on The Lasers Edge.
In 2024, POLY-MATH began work on their new album, Something Deeply Hidden, alongside the preliminarily released EP, The Halting Problem. These two releases are the first to include abstract expressionist artwork created by guitarist Tim Walters. Both the album and EP are the first releases to be largely recorded by the band themselves. In style, they both move away from the formulaic structure of POLY-MATH’s previous work and include a greater focus on improvisational solos and expansive percussion.
Something Deeply Hidden was mixed by Mark Roberts, mastered by Chris Muth, and features additional guitar on “Terror Management Theory” by Ben Harris and additional music on “The Universe As An Engine” by C. A. Walters, the latter of which arrives as the album’s lead single. For fans of King Crimson, The Mars Volta, Behold The Arctopus, Dysrhythmia, Battles, And So I Watch You from Afar, and similar acts, POLY-MATH’s instrumental music is prime listening.
With their new single, bassist Joe Branton reveals, “‘No Such Thing As Now’ is one of the first songs we wrote for this album. It’s more mellow and showcases our Ethio-jazz influences a little more than most tracks on this record. We feel like this track is the direction we’re going in next more than most of the others. It still has shifting time signatures, and complex riffs that are more our USP, but there’s improvisation and a greater depth of dynamics to this one.”
With the song’s premiere, Heavy Blog Is Heavy writes in part, “POLY-MATH are one of my favorite bands in the math/progressive rock scene,” delving into the new song itself, “It has an overall brighter, sunnier vibe, a lighter touch which, nonetheless, does eventually lead to that POLY-MATH darker density near its end. But that density hits that much harder for being blended with redolent, whirling, bright guitars, what sounds like agile hand drums of some sort, and an expansive, progressive vibe… Especially excellent is the culmination of the track in a flagrant, satisfying crescendo, which leads straight into an epic return of the track’s main theme.”
Explore POLY-MATH’s “No Such Thing As Now” first through Heavy Blog Is Heavy RIGHT HERE.
The Lasers Edge will release Something Deeply Hidden on CD, LP, and digitally on April 10th. Find physical preorders, digital preorders, and presaves where “The Universe As An Engine” is streaming HERE.
POLY-MATH will support Something Deeply Hidden with tour dates scattered across the UK and Europe beginning the day of the album’s release, April 10th, running through May 23rd. All current dates are listed below, and additional live excursions are to be expected. During the tour, POLY-MATH will also include additional percussionist, Sam Simpson of Memory of Elephants, to better portray the tracks on the new album.
POLY-MATH Something Deeply Hidden UK & European Tour 2026:
4/10/2026 Le Pub – Newport, UK
4/11/2026 The Flapper – Birmingham, UK
4/16/2026 MusikBunker – Aachen, DE
4/17/2026 Neue Zukunft – Berlin, DE
4/18/2026 Secret Location – Leipzig, DE
4/20/2026 Live At Rama Studio – Mannheim, DE
4/22/2026 Cafe V Lese – Prague, CZ
4/23/2026 Kuba – Jena, DE
4/24/2026 MK Bar – Esche-Sur-Alzette, LU
4/25/2026 Kunsthalle Im Kalkwerk – Limburg, DE
5/07/2026 Crofters – Bristol, UK
5/08/2026 Oslo – London, UK
5/09/2026 Dust – Brighton, UK
5/21/2026 Carousel – Nottingham, UK
5/22/2026 Wharf Chambers – Leeds, UK
5/23/2026 Little Buildings – Newcastle, UK
Based in Brighton and London, POLY-MATH is heavily influenced by early classic prog, Ethio-jazz, post-rock, and math rock, having explored different genres and identities over the course of their five albums, two side project lockdown albums, and numerous EPs. The band has morphed through several lineups, initially started as a trio in 2013, formed by guitarist Tim Walters. Originally the drummer of post-rock band Monsters Build Mean Robots, Walters formed POLY-MATH to focus on guitar and explore more expansive instrumental music, joined by bassist Joe Branton and drummer Chris Woollison.
Six months into the band’s casual existence, POLY-MATH was booked to play the opening slot on the second stage of the first ever ArcTanGent Festival in Bristol, UK, a festival that today has become one of the UK’s premium avant-garde music events. Following the success and subsequent support that ArcTanGent afforded the band, POLY-MATH switched it up a gear, and started working more seriously on recording and touring.
In 2018, POLY-MATH crowd funded their album, House Of Wisdom | We Are The Devil, allowing fans the opportunity to send in voice notes from selected texts to be manipulated and used in the final record. Shortly after this, the band expanded to a four-piece, with the addition of keyboardist Josh Gesner; an American multi-instrumentalist who had recently relocated to the UK. While the band started work on their 2022 release, Zenith, they also took on saxophonist Chris Olsen, expanding the band to a five-piece, although only temporarily for that album.
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