Get The Blessing return with their fourth album, and what is their second for the Naim label following last year's OC DC. The west country based quartet were once the Jazz Police's favourite whipping boys but have stuck to their guns and toured extensively in the past two years carving out a niche and an audience of their very own. At the heart of the action is the McMurchie-Judge horn section with its infectious melodies and improvisations combined with the meaty groove-charged Portishead rhythm section of electric bassist Barr with his sensuous, grinding new wave-y bass riffs and current Radiohead ‘live’ drummer No.2 Clive Deamer's dance-like, airtight post-rock grooves. But on the new album recorded at an empty pottery workshop in Wales, the instrumental sonic effects and treatments they've been playing ‘live’ have been centrally integrated into the sound and there's a more pared down texture enhanced by some hip-sounding production values. From the ethio nu-jazz of ‘Corniche’ and ‘Antilope’ reminiscent of Swedish trumpeter Goran Kajfeš’ earlier albums through to the trippy electric Miles-ish clubby ambience of ‘Luposcope’ and similarly doomy krautrock-ish ‘Viking Death Moped’, Lope and Antilope has got to be Get The Blessing's most strikingly original statement on disc so far