I had no idea Level 42 were still performing, did you? But I shouldn’t be surprised: there’s still a good audience for 1980s acts, and watching Mark King slapping his bass in that mildly unfathomable way on Top of the Pops made a deep impression on many of my generation. But King wasn’t solely responsible for moulding the Level 42 jazz-funk sound: fellow vocalist and keys player Mike Lindup had a significant input too. Across the decades, Lindup has made a few solo albums: Changes (1990), Conversations with Silence (2003), and now Changes 2. The latter is funky, soulful, jazzy. It’s not entirely unlike Level 42. Smartly arranged and with finely honed vocal lines from Lindup, it’s thoroughly danceable – tell Alexa to play the album opener, ‘Atlantia’, and prepare to groove like you’re in the TOTP audience. There are guest vocal appearances from Omar on ‘I Saw You In My Dreams’, Tony Momrelle on ‘Could It Really Be’, and (perhaps regrettably) impressionist Jon Culshaw on the socially and politically-conscious satire of ‘Teflon Don’.