The Vienna sessions for Led Bib's sixth studio album were a potential last stand for a band questioning their future. For the first time, each member arrived with compositions new to the others, and renewed, resurrecting purpose. Sometimes dubbed punk-jazz due to their early inspiration by Zorn's Spy vs Spy band and no-quarter gigs, they offer a richer picture here. ‘Lobster Terror’ is typical, its explosively confrontational start redeemed by soaring, interwoven alto melodies. Time and again, a sense of urgent freedom and beauty forces its way through the melee. Keyboardist Toby McLaren adds atmospheric electronic distortion, aiding the eerie hush of ‘On the Roundabout’, which finds a sonic space between The Clangers' papier mache moonscape and a forgotten Casbah corner, while his composition ‘Ceasefire’ has passages of proggy, Radiohead-like grandeur. Umbrella Weather sometimes brutally powers through its 76 minutes, refusing to flag even as it finds space for the breathily amiable alto conversation which begins ‘At the Shopping Centre’, the delicate and the limpid. Nothing's a half-measure, or half-formed. ‘Goodbye’ finishes in exultant, swinging unison, one last rush and push towards a resurgent future.