Tess Hirst's words give barbed force to Daniel Casimir's open-hearted music, which is grounded in hard bop while exploring a wider palette. Mingus's dramatic litany of persecution, ‘Fables of Faubus’, is adapted to our own fearfully racist moment during ‘These Days’, while over brewing Blakey-esque drums, ‘What Did I Do’ digs into Hirst and Casimir's home streets in London's far west, where disrupting crime and change alienate, and the singer wonders “if the patient will survive the operation”. A bluntly titled instrumental with added Hirst lyrics imminent, ‘They Come Over Here’, is spy-movie ominous, suggesting surveillance paranoia and the Specials' haunted ska dancehalls with the serrated edge of Tobie Carpenter's guitar, Casimir's jittery bass and Jerry Dammers-like, cinematic piano. Guyanese-Briton John Agard's rebel poetry also acerbically interjects, riding Windrush currents: “Me not no Oxford don/Me a simple immigrant from Clapham Common… I don't need no axe/to split up your syntax.” Instrumental or otherwise, this is another bulletin from a London scene engaged and unquiet about careless injustice.