Mindset

A new album by perhaps the most critically acclaimed group Australia has ever produced, and their first since 2009's Silverwater. Nominally a jazz group, the Necks appeal to an incredibly broad audience. Each Necks release is different to the last. Here they layer polyrhythmic material atop of seething blocks of sound - in two long pieces, one more stripped back to the live trio, the other featuring multiple strata of swirling Hammonds, noise-guitar and electronics. It's their 16th release in their 24th year as a band and, amazingly, they are still finding new things to do.