YOU may well have heard Glass Caves in their regular weekend busking pitch in York outside All Saints Church, in Pavement, at the end of Parliament Street.

The Press has always referred to the rapidly rising indie rockers as a York and Pontefract band, but an email has just dropped through the inbox reintroducing them as "Leeds' Glass Caves".

Sent by Ollie McCormack, director of London publicists Top Button Digital (PR. Marketing. Social Strategies. Data Management. Web Design," by the way), it goes on to call the four-piece "alt-rock nomads".

Well, if they will move their roots from York and Pontefract to Leeds, then "nomads" they may as well be. Then again, as Rick Witter and Shed Seven would affirm, bands were once habitually advised to say they were from the bigger city. Shed Seven, however, refused to play the game.

Anyway, the purpose of Ollie's missive was to announce that the, erm, York and Pontefract-rooted Glass Caves would be releasing their debut album, Alive, on October 27 via Tri-Tone, preceded by the single Go. If you can't wait a few more weeks, Alive is already streaming on Soundcloud and you can order the album online at buyalive.co.uk

Produced by Rich Turvey, Glass Caves "blaze a trail of UK rock spawned from classic influences and adorned with contemporary production that is as muscular as it is refined and lustrous," says Ollie.

"The album catalogues this restlessly active band's increasing ambitions as they are adopted by growing audiences in cities they frequent playing on the streets. The result is a grand statement of intent with bombastic choruses interspersing more subtle references to concerns of the heart and spirit."

Glass Caves next play in York at the City Screen Basement on Wednesday, headlining Tri-Tone's already sold-out 8pm bill that also features Girlfriend, Vitamin (UK) and Acre Tarn. Their 11-date tour takes them to Leeds Brudenell Social Club on Thursday and the Sheffield Rocking Chair on Friday and there is another York gig on the horizon at Fibbers on November 21.