Although led by Italian bassist, Lorenzo Feliciati, Naked Truth boasts some major US talent: keyboardist Roy Powell has worked with Anthony Braxton, drummer Pat Mastelotto is a regular with King Crimson and trumpeter Graham Haynes (son of drummer Roy, here replacing Vietnamese American horn player Cuong Vu) co-led M-Base vehicle Five Elements with Steve Coleman. On this third studio album, there’s a sense that they’re trying hard to stretch the boundaries of jazz rock, in much the same way that post-punk struck out for new textures and rhythms in the early 1980s. A queasy, plastic sheen pervades the entire date – emphasised by Bill Laswell’s bright, synthetic production. Largely avoiding conventional grooves, the tunes swirl around, unmoored and searching for a centre as merry-go-round Hammond organ, slippery electric bass and strident horn skitter over stumble-fumbling beats. Disorientating, unsettling and oddly claustrophobic, it’s rather like eating warm sushi beneath harsh strip-lighting in a futuristic restaurant staffed entirely by robots.