This second album from the Paul Fox Collective follows lukewarm-to-warm on the heels of their debut 2011, Submerging & Emerging. Bandleader Paul Fox is a Luxembourg-born and-based drummer/composer with a nice feel for the contemporary jazz middle-ground. The arrangements never attempt to shock with starkness – the instrumental quintet make a generous noise, full of fusiony textures. Pianist and keyboard player Robert Kesternich tries out a range of electronic sounds across the running order (compare and contrast ‘On the Edge’ and ‘Serendipity’), while ‘Stuck in a Dream’ is a tribute to filmmaker Christopher Nolan and features fine evocative guitar from Zacharias Zschenderlein. ‘Morons in my Closet’ allows the six-string man to dirty his sound up a bit, matched by the sax work of Markus Ehrlich; this is a really meaty piece of work (no idea where the title comes from, mind). Perhaps the most immediately ear-catching cuts are those featuring German singer Stephanie Neigel, especially the modestly trad swinger ‘Beauty and the Beat’ and ‘Blurry Shapes’, which uses Neigel's wordless vocal to help evoke an early-morning sleepwalk through a pedestrian zone.