Ex-Easter Island Head (2009-) are a UK-based musical group composing and performing music for solid body electric guitar, percussion and other instruments. Primarily performing as a quartet, the group incorporate multiple electric guitars augmented through mechanical preparations and extended techniques to create works that explore group interplay, repetition and melodic invention through purposefully limited means.

Their records Mallet Guitars One–Three, Large Electric Ensemble and Twenty-Two Strings have been released to significant critical acclaim from the likes of The Wire, Pitchfork, the Quietus and the New York Times. The group have received airplay on the BBC, ABC, German National Radio and more with their music favourably compared to the likes of Steve Reich, Glenn Branca and John Cage.

Collaborators include musicians of the BBC Philharmonic and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestras, Birmingham international Dance Festival (with choreographer/artist Kei Miyata) and composer Arnold Dreyblatt. They have undertaken several collaborations with composer/performer Laura Cannell, including the collaborative album Whistling Arrow, with Charles Hayward and Andre Bosman. 

They have released two successful volumes of library and production music for EMI/KPM – Mechanical Landscapes One and Two. Currently they have been recording their first new album since 2016, for release in 2023. The band:
Benjamin D. Duvall, Benjamin Fair, Jonathan Hering, Andrew PM Hunt

"Churning pulses, alternate tunings and dense harmonic worlds... all the strings being heard at once" – The New York Times

“Repetition and rumbling resonances bringing to mind Rhys Chatham's seminal works with tone and John Cage's rhythmic sensibilities” – Pitchfork