Throughout his career Danish guitarist Bro has been a champion of understatement, and this release marks an interesting stage in his ongoing progress. Perhaps more than on previous occasions he shows an intensely introspective and at times deeply mournful character in which composure, stillness and sotto voce playing are at a premium. Whispers rather than screams are the order of the day, and the restraint and control of volume in particular makes the material as much a series of intimate epistles as it is headlining missives. Having said that, the controlled rise of energy is all the more interesting when it does arrive, the key example being ‘View’, which features a brilliantly allusive prelude in which bassist Morgan and drummer Christensen tease their way into a deliciously broken swing before Bro and Mikkelborg spread languorously elongated phrases around the stuttering momentum. Elsewhere, the guitar-brass combination achieves great tonal beauty, as the needle-like timbres of the former glint and glide into the warm blanket of the latter. Bro's dream-state riffs and gently brushed chords make a sizeable impression. What is problematic, however, is the occasional uniformity of the vocabulary – the signes particuliers are a touch on the dissatisfying side in the latter part of the session, and there are moments when the self-imposed, carefully observed restrictions of key and tempo are borderline underwhelming. The quality of the playing as well as the judiciously short duration of many of the tracks offset the longeurs, making this an appealing offering from a musician who is steadily creating a notable body of work.