Town and Country: Up Above (Thrilljockey)

FEATURING, AS EVER, an impressively antique array of instrumentation, including harmonium, cello, viola, handbells and string bass, Up Above is Town And Country's sixth release, but very much up with the pace and the place avant rock is currently at in its drift away from the electric neon centre, towards a notional, pre-modern ruralism that borders on the abstract. Indeed, Town And Country go so far as to put the "ur" in 'rural'.