Jay Bharadia is absolutely full of charm. The music he writes is fantastically diverse.

The intro track Bridgeburner does nothing to summarise the album to come, but it’s a fairly pleasant and short soundscape that doesn’t bore you for the sake of it. Before you can skip it, it’s over. When Snowy Day kicks in, things become far more optimistic. Mixing folk with African dub vocals, Bharadia succeeds in making a kick-ass track full of hooks and a slow yet dance-worthy rhythm.

Raising Theme I deserves a short mention. While the keyboard he plays sounds distorted and broken, there’s just something in the melody that haunts you like the ghost of an old Rhodes keyboard would. It could be classed as a filler track, but it’s just much better than that.

However, you will find a hell of a lot of songs that could be described as filler on this album. While it is great filler that at least goes somewhere before it ends, sometimes you wish that he’d build on the idea and make a longer song out of it. Raising Theme I is the primary example of this. He could’ve fleshed it out a bit with more instruments and electronics, but his decision was to keep it short and sweet.

Mother Culture is well and truly the standout track. Itstarts off with some kind of Bollywood soundtrack sample, which soon gives way to a pleasant acoustic part that smells a little bit like Pause era Four Tet.It’s really no surprise seeing as Kieran Hebden himself approves of Bharadia’s brand of warm electronica.

There’s no coldness or machinery in the sound – it’s full of heart and sounds organic, including many acoustic instruments that sound like they were played around a gypsy campfire in the early hours of the morning.

Finally, Roffmaloff stands on its own as an exceptional alternative dance tune. Still sounding reminiscent of Four Tetbut with enough variation to make the sound his own, Bharadia meanders through many instruments and samples pretty much for the hell of it. More Bollywood, broken beats, filtered guitars (the one thing that keeps this track together is the constant guitar theme in the background) and keyboards.