Flowers From The Dead sound from their name as if they should be goths, but play a hybrid of ’90s-style shoegaze and grunge.

I caught them by chance, on the eve of Halloween, at the Shacklewell Arms in Dalston last night. And I thought they were great.

Then again, I was never not going to like a group whose debut album rejoiced in the title Quiet Corrosion In The Dancing Hall, and whose latest release is called My Misery Is Mine.

A trio in their early 20s from Washington D.C., on their first overseas tour, they closed their short set of fuzzy shoegaze noise with this eight-minute epic, In Shadow.

It also closes their second, and most recent album, Magnolia, which I had not heard until I saw them at the Shacklewell Arms – the penultimate performance of their European tour.

In Shadow starts in fairly conventional manner, with Jessie Szegö’s grungey guitar riffs contrasting with her angelic voice before the song builds to become a blizzard of noise and distortion with an almost trancelike effect.

Comparisons, if they must be made, might mention Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr, PJ Harvey, and probably – if only because two of the trio are women – The Breeders.

Delving into their backstory, I find that Szegö wrote many of the songs on her own before forming the trio five years ago with bassist Ella Buskirk and drummer Ricky Martinez, aka “Ten Bears.”

And I have no idea what’s going on with the chimp.