Best known as the sax man in Get the Blessing, the Bristol-based musician Jake McMurchie has been attracting some attention of late with his own band Michelson Morley since the fine 2014 debut Aether Drift. Although the instrumental line-up appears to be a jazz quartet, Michelson Morley achieve a happy medium between the intensely pulsating grooves of electronica, Steve Reich-like minimalism and folky Nordic jazz on their intriguing second CD Strange Courage this time for London's maverick Babel Label.

The new member is the versatile singer-songwriter-influenced guitarist Dan Messore whose band Indigo Kid features Iain Ballamy, and there's similarities with the saxophonist's Anglo-Norwegian ECM duo Food in Michelson Morley's spacious, menacing avant jazztronica on Strange Courage.

But the more accessible aspect of McMurchie's playing, of the kind we hear from Get the Blessing, lightens the mood with the quartet frequently crossing over into warmer, more melodically engaging territory, not too dissimilar to Seb Rochford-led Polar Bear's more recent electronica-led recordings.

With Michelson Morley, jazz in the age of the electroacoustic loop is in safe hands.