CelesteMelodic****

The Soundcarriers' influences may evoke the sort of music you usually find buried in the dusty recesses of your local charity shop's vinyl section, but the difference is that the Nottingham band use their inspirations to craft songs that nod to yesteryear, yet are shaded with dark and light edges that only a modern band could produce. The quartet's love of the 1960s, analogue recording and John Barry's

Midnight Cowboy

soundtrack is patently clear, and also make a band such as Stereolab an obvious association. Though

Celeste

may seem easily categorisable, its concoction of slinky grooves, prominent bass lines and dashes of scratchy jazz, wispy paganistic folk and whatever secret ingredient that made its predecessor (last year's debut, Harmonium) so captivating ultimately makes it a record layered with swirling intrigue. See

thesoundcarriers.com

Download tracks:Step Outside, Long Highway