Dom Howard is a young guitarist and composer from Cambridge currently starting to make some waves on the London scene. Here he’s joined by a selection of his contemporaries for an album’s worth of original sounding music that steers between the current wide-screen sounds of a Snarky Puppy and the more esoteric textures and soundscapes you might find in the work of such current prog-facing artists as Black Country New Road or These New Puritans.

Listeners may be tempted to propose a link to such uncompromising fusioneers as Henry Cow or even mid-1970s King Crimson, but best not to belabour comparisons: this is determinedly forward-looking music. Howard is a great guitarist, capable of busting out the contemporary shred, as demonstrated on the opening track ‘Gyres’, but as the same track demonstrates he’s equally interested in exploring different textures and unexpected musical juxtapositions and shifts, combining orchestral acoustic sounds with squelchy synths and stuttering rhythms, as on ‘Tidal Dance’.

It’s a beguiling journey full of surprises, although as it progresses we realise that Howard and co are never going to commit to anything as high-key as a stated melody or settled groove - ambience is everything. Original and intriguing.