This is the fourth album by Mulelid’s trio, the previous three albums on Rune Grammofon. Their debut from 2017, Not Nearly Enough to Buy a House, when the leader was 26, gets full marks for social commentary but suggested there was still a way to go in melodic development, harmonic astuteness and compositional skills. Even so, it nevertheless suggested potential. He is now 35 and whether that potential has been realised remains moot since not much progress seems to have been made in these areas. He still sounds as if he’s playing for himself, or to put his kids to sleep. And Now just about registers ‘good’, but the feeling lingers that in the middle of some songs here you could go out to the kitchen, make a cup of tea, and on your return his rather meandering improvisations would still be going round and round in the same cul-de-sac getting nowhere.