He's not on the personnel sheet but Ben Lamdin is the lynchpin, the guy who steers the good-vibe ship that is Nostalgia 77. Following the vocalled 2011 The Sleepwalker Society the band return to their instrumental jazz roots in which the lessons of electronic and hip hop beats have been learned, reinvented and filtered into an acoustic jazz setting. The excellent Vosloo and Giles combination is all the better for Lamdin's hip production values that connect up to a young generation brought up in a popular music subculture of mutating underground beats and spacey studio sonics. But Lamdin writes great slinky, slightly-stoned melodies and horn lines too, reminiscent of Seb Rochford's Polar Bear on occasion, within a expansively sensuous sound world that incorporates latin, folk-cabaret and chamber classical music, sparse Morricone-like cinema sounds and a 1960's smoky modal cool. There's enough improv to satisfy hardier jazzier types too, with brainy reedsman James Allsopp getting in the free improv zone on the title track and Ross Stanley's modal Hammond soloing on ‘Sunrise in Mexico’.