An intriguing multi-instrumental release from Melodic, bursting with aural colours, textures and lovely tunes. What is evident from listening to this short slice of Psapp’s output is that they have embraced new ideas with verve, exploring them through a number of different media, including acoustic indie-pop and leftfield electronica.

The first track Calm Down has a music box feel to it, which potentially makes it sound twee, though the husky female vocals offset this nicely. Biskitt takes simple piano and puts it through various effects to roughen it, and Pocket conjures crunchy textures and juxtaposes them against cut-up vocals, clicks, and the weirdly effective sound of distorted chimes. It’s a bit like listening to Mouse on Mars if they lost the industrial harshness and rediscovered the art of the lullaby. Infra Red carries this blissed-out atmosphere a step further, with a close-mic acoustic ballad punctuated by subterranean digital echoes and bursts of organic-sounding noise.

However the piece de resistance here, if only for novelty value, is the spoken sample featured on Dad’s Breakdown, which documents the speaker’s indecision over whether or not to have a breakdown, and his idea for totting up the pros and cons in separate columns. It’s both pathetic and funny, not least because part of his reason for having a breakdown is because he’d fallen in love with a lesbian who in turn had fallen in love with her female psychiatrist. It’s recounted in a tone of dry but ironic resignation, and makes compulsive listening.