On the second album from AGF/Delay - German sound artist and poet Antye Greie-Fuchs and her Finnish producer boyfriend, Vladislav Delay, better known for his work under the Luomo moniker - the pair have honed their aesthetic considerably. As Greie-Fuchs intones meditations on humanity, technology and society in an understated singspiel, Delay makes her emotions manifest in metallic, tolling chords, rumbling electronic storms and beats that sound like feet shuffling in powdery snow. Even though the pair exhibit a wilfully abstruse, clinical air, Symptoms is both hooky and tactile. It's even, at times, danceable (the demented jack-in-the-box rhythm of Generic). Greie-Fuchs, meanwhile, alternates between brooding over mobile phones ("I don't know who owns my connection to you") and mocking disdain ("I am no longer following the concept of empathy"), while always maintaining poise and grace.