Bodies of Water have been on hiatus for the last couple of years, while the band's central forces, David and Meredith Metcalf, indulged their fetish for 1970s pop with Music Go Music. Something in them seems to have been exorcised by the change of scene, because Twist Again, BoW's third album, is a calmer, more controlled affair than either of its predecessors. The four-part gospel choir has been abandoned in favour of a focus on David's brooding baritone and Meredith's nightingale trill, and where familiar musical ingredients appear – abrupt changes in tempo, flurrying saxophones, galloping guitars – it's with an appealing new restraint. So while the stabbing synthesisers of opening track One Hand Loves the Other retain some of the hysteria of old, that's tempered by the quiet grace of Meredith's courtly harmonies. And when the couple duet in My Hip Won't Let Me, a treatise on unequal love, the slight disjunction of their voices subtly dramatises and expands the song's sorrow.