The regrouping Norwegian 10-piece drop the Jazzist suffix and concentrate on spirited indie epics where the J-word continues to mutate into a left-sided beast. Towed by big guitar missions that dominate slow-burning stirrings – woodwinds of an undoubted jazz heritage carrying ‘For All You Happy People’ and ‘Swedenborgske Rom’ - the stop-start theatrics and amplifier haze pollinating with electronics in ‘All I Know is Tonight’ and ‘Stardust Hotel’ could feasibly have been culled from RJD2’s ‘Since We Last Spoke’. The type of interpretable music that should earn itself a ‘Play’-style contract scoring TV adverts.
4 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Matt Oliver
