LA musician Sam Gendel is one of the few artists on the scene who really deserves the title of maverick, as a glance over his recent activities will confirm: both he and Wilkes are part of a constellation of forward thinking players active across the digital realm, from Pamplemoose to Louis Cole’s various projects, to rumoured involvement with the masked pranksters of Clown Core. In 2018 Gendel and Wilkes put out an album of laid-back impromptu duets, and there was enough material in their vaults from subsequent live appearances for this follow-up release. While Wilkes plays his Fender bass fairly straight – apart from some unobtrusive delays and reverbs – Gendel likes to put his sax though all types of electronic modulation, and there is plenty of extra sonic input from a wealth of audio miscellany, additionally generated pulses, textures and odd scraps of digital chatter – like the looped, whispered beatboxing on ‘Greetings To Idris’.

For all the complex layers of sound, there’s a resolutely lo-fi hipster ethos to the production. Wilkes’ bass has the dry clack of flatwounds, there’s a woozy slacker feel to the tinny beats of ‘Theem Prototype’ and several tracks feature audible background conversations throughout as though you’re listening to a couple of dudes jamming in the back room of an arty bar. It’s an appealing invitation into their world, though both men mask their considerable musicianship so effectively behind their slacker vibe that the project treads a fine line between insouciant and inconsequential.