The British pianist John Law's wide-ranging idiomatic skillset has seen him continually engage with classical concert music through jazz improv into pop-rock and electronica since the 1980s. His Congregation quartet's new CD Configuration is an organic hybrid of these and more, his all-originals mixing rock-fuelled riffage, looping chamber minimalism, ambient electronica and a more freewheeling groove-based improv.

On the catchy ‘And Them’ Law's echo-y electric piano recalls something of Brad Mehldau from his Mehliana project, while the title track introduces us to Mercury Prize nominees Roller Trio's James Mainwaring and his No Wave-ish punk sax-honking.

‘Scandinavian Lullaby’ combines Nordic-style electronica-sax atmospherics, pop-song dreaminess, sparse beats and Law's succinct jazz piano. While the hammering piano loop in ‘Processional’ might prove testing for someone not heavily into Steve Reich, the mesmerising ‘Through a Glass Darkly’ seems to cross something from David Bowie's Low instrumentals with John Surman's eerie sax-and-synth experimentation. Law integrates street samples into the downtown funk-jazz of final track ‘Complex City’ while Mainwaring's sax applies the city heat, concluding with a voiceover erratically slowing down and speeding up as it announces the band personnel; it makes for a fittingly offbeat finale.