Ambitious touring has given this Danish band fans from China to Brazil. The mix of anthemic melodies and surging riffs, which has found Snarky Puppy and GoGo Penguin wide audiences, is part of Girls In Airports’ appeal. But their pretty, wistful, mostly sax-led tunes have to wind their way through clanging rock-falls of percussion, reverberating beats and wind-buffeted chimes. Their last album, Kaikoura, was recorded on a Danish island, and a feeling of being away on some exotic adventure permeates Fables. ‘Randall's Island’ is especially evocative, beginning with tribal beats, which are overtaken by proggy organ, then gospel-house, science-fiction ambience. It's as if we're penetrating the titular island's interior, like some phantom, South Seas-set Kubrick film, till the saxes let a straight, limpid jazz melody coalesce in the mist. They aren't all at sea all the time. ‘Aftentur’ is an atmospheric urban night-ride, emphasising dance music influences as intrinsic to Girls In Airports as Mingus (whose ‘Fables of Faubus’ played in the background as they recorded). ‘Mammatus’, meanwhile, though it has the melancholy we associate with Nordic jazz, isn't chilly, but warm with the sad nostalgia of a Nino Rota score for Fellini.