Colin Towns, the jazz, film and TV composer and former prog-rock pianist, introduced this Anglo-German sextet last year, playing a typically broad repertoire featuring jazz-orchestral harmonies, glimpses of Zappa, Miles Davis and the Beatles, and a drama composer's pacing. The debut album, Stand Well Back, was good, but its successor is better – with the band (including Polar Bear saxophonist Mark Lockheart and Troyka guitarist Chris Montague) sounding creatively settled, the rhythms more edgily contemporary, and nothing within miles of a flat track out of all 12 here. Towns mixes his ingredients with a poise worthy of Gil Evans, as he does with the flouncing sax/guitar theme, tenor solo and percussion and handclapping sounds on Attention Seeker, with tenor, guitar and piano on the blaring, hooky Isadora, or the lost-in-space soprano sax atmosphere of Miles Davis' In a Silent Way on the finale. There are wild tangos, brooding Iberian folk melodies, churchy choral sounds, tongue-in-cheek rock piano, and an atmosphere of youthful exuberance that shows how much Towns the old-hand visionary and his new recruits are now inspiring each other.