Following a developmental period of workshop-ing new tunes into shape on last year's busy live schedule, the rawest power trio in UK post-jazz are back in the studio for the first time following their eponymous Mercury nominated debut in 2012. As a consequence, Fracture feels more tightly constructed composition-wise leaving a little less open space for jamming and Mainwaring's ferocious punky free jazz soloing. But as compensation there's no shortage of epic memorably singalong melody hooks and blistering riffs often occurring in restless, episodic shifts of narrative. Luke Wynter alternates between tenderly chiming chords and jagged funk rock guitar; drummer Luke Reddin-Williams mixes up hip hop and electronica with moshpit alt. rock beats while Mainwaring sometimes takes his cue from Pete Wareham's machine gun-like sax stabs in the now defunct Acoustic Ladyland. Towards the end of the album, the trippy dub of ‘Tracer’ and the ambient electronica of ‘Tightrope’ – that echoes something of Dylan Howe's ode to David Bowie's Berlin era albums – seems to point to some kind of change in musical direction.