Gangs Richter Collective***

It's amazing that And So I Watch You From Afar have found time to write material for their second album, never mind record, promote and tour it. The Belfast instrumentalists have blazed a relentless trail from Moscow to Hollywood over the past two years, but how to distil those experiences into a record that sounds as incendiary as their debut? The quartet mostly hit their targets, making their self-assured experiments in cadence and melody sound effortless, especially on the unruffled

7 Billion People . . . ,

the precise, pulverising intricacies of

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and

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to

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's hybrid of dream and nightmare. Little here to sway fence-sitters, perhaps, but it sounds like ASIWYFA are revelling in being masters of their own apocalyptic universe.

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