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Molten opener ‘Will We Last’ – full of clangorous, metallic guitars and syncopated bass – is at once uplifting and loaded with non-specific dread (“I’ve been deaf in the mornings/ Since a late night in June”, it begins). It prefaces three more tracks of circumspect post-punk and glassy existential contemplation. This mood is pulled into softer focus by the delicate synth lines on The Hours, before the stark isolation of City Lights draws a curtain over proceedings. By comparison, it is perhaps the attitude of playfulness on Blinking that most straightforwardly reflects the wit, boldness and confidence of the band right now.

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GROWL POWER is written for the deep, resonant bass flute,
ever out after dark (or blue lady in a boring city) is written for alto flute and a blue lady,
GLÓÐ|STELPA is written for c flute (the title might be roughly translated to “intersection of embers and girl“),
and Stars with Shadows (on vast void and whatnot) is written for the piccolo flute.

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