London duo Binker & Moses aren’t really the type to sit still. Last year's excellent album Feeding the Machine, their fourth studio date, incorporated Max Luthert's modular synths into an increasingly restless picture. It's a similar story on First Light, Village of the Sun's debut release, which sees the duo collaborate with Simon Ratcliffe, one half of 1990s dance music dons Basement Jaxx, who reveals a deep love of improvised instrumental music here.

Fans of the Jaxx's output needn’t fear; it's not ‘Where's Your Head At’ with added sax (though hearing ‘Red Alert’ at a jam session isn't inconceivable these days). It's a lot more subtle than the in-your-face leads of classic-era Jaxx; on most tracks, Ratcliffe blends rather than dominates, nodding to the heady textures of Alice Coltrane, and providing an inescapable blanket of synths that helps give this new trio an identity distinct to other similar setups on the scene.

What it does sound more like is a Binker & Moses record, with some other stuff under the surface – no bad thing, given the form the duo are in of late (it's interesting to hear the prominence of samba and Afro-Cuban themes on both this and Ezra Collective's recent releases). It's testament to Ratcliffe's musical sensitivity that the record's most impactful moments, like the impressive title track, creep up on you, rather than crashing in. Could Ratcliffe twist the structures of the tunes, add something more melodic, or make his mark more generally? That point of synthesis comes on final track ‘Ted’, a flavour of what the future might hold.