The opening moments of this debut recording from a young Mancunian acoustic piano trio sound almost accidental, like walking in on a soundcheck. The self-conscious disjuncture of that freely improvised fanfare to 'Eye’s Regret' coalesces into broodingly reflective piano over a thrumming bass pulse and tight drumming. That, in turn, gives way to an emphatic drum solo before things come to a nicely co-ordinated conclusion. Each player has contributed to this album's six tracks and Richard Jones has said that their compositional approach is to avoid fully formed tunes, instead deploying motifs and ideas from which to improvise. This gives 'Eye’s Regret' and the strangely programmatic 'Thursday Afternoon in Newcastle' an enjoyable playfulness, while that is reined in for the slippery time signatures of the more wistful ballad 'K.H.'. The nearest thing to a conventional number is Johnny Hunter’s 'Mr Relaxed', albeit that it slips between a casually laconic songbook groove and bursts of brisk swing, complete with sure-footed walking bass. The album closes more gently with 'Some Mat', a satisfyingly elaborate piece that opens with intricate piano and bass counterpoint before yielding to a lightly sketched piano rumination that could be a Debussy work-in-progress. There’s a wealth of ideas here, some more fully formed than others – inevitable, perhaps, as they went for one-take recordings – and overall the album announces a new project that should be gathering much wider interest in the future.