The second album from the Derbyshire trio doesn’t move along an enormous amount from their debut, Tricolore (2013). It’s all still resolutely small-scale, a cottage industry rather than a factory product, with distinctly old-fashioned sounds rubbing shoulders with electronics to create something that sounds not so much timeless as separated from modernity. On Divided By Surfaces and Silence, accordion and piano play what hardly counts as a melody, so basic is it, while what sounds like a loop of someone scrunching a ball of paper provides the rhythmic backdrop. Etch and Etch Deep isn’t going to grab anyone at first listen with big pop hooks. This is an insinuating record, a sunshine-and-haywains counterpart to the sinister English ruralism of the likes of Hacker Farm, but one that nags at you once its charms are clear.
