Three-piece Trophies (voice, fretless guitar and drums) offer up a tightly woven collection of six pieces that blend avantgarde jazz stylings and beat poetry with drones and a range of grungy and bubbly post effects ranging from the classic and psychadelic to the more modern and electronic-sounding.

Opener “Curiosity” has a bit of everything, an eight-minute opus in four distinct parts. The indulgently bluesy, guttural vocal of “Arirang” is one of those love-it-or-hate-it elements- to me, the jaunty energy of the following track “Small Process” comes as a welcome relief.

The second half of the short LP is also somewhat lighter, with the high vocal of “Desidare” coming across as almost poppy. “Problem” (where- spoilers- apparently the biggest problem is Italy, so they say) takes short vocal samples and loops them unequally so that they fall out of sync in stereo, a well-established trick but still quite fun. Final track “Water” is an oddity in a different way, slightly more proto-techno and bordering on sinister.

Considering the relatively conventional musical set-up, this is a diverse and undoubtedly virtuoso set of musical ideas, though at times it does feel like the envelope could have been pushed just a little further.