Born in France but based in New York, to which he moved after graduating from the Berklee College of Music in Boston and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz in LA, pianist and composer Romain Collin is now onto his third album as leader: the highly accomplished Press Enter follows his splendidly titled debut, The Rise and Fall of Pipokuhn (2009), and 2012's The Calling. Collin writes a lot for film, and his attraction to vivid, visual storytelling through music is evident here, with strong, well-structured melodies taking precedence over improvisational details. Collin is a smart arranger, astutely augmenting his basic trio set-up as necessary: Jean-Michel Pilc's whistles aren't wasted on track five, ‘The Kids’. Carefully constructed atmospheres predominate, from opener ‘99’ through the unsettling distortions of ‘Event Horizons’ (pitched sonically somewhere between Grandaddy's Sophtware Slump and the minimalism of Steve Reich). Cinematic portentousness powers ‘The Line (Dividing Good And Evil Cuts Through The Heart Of Every Human Being)’ before the set concludes with a stripped-back solo take on Monk's ‘’Round About Midnight’.