The pair’s last collaborative release was 2007’s Eleven Questions- this offered up a collection of edgy, cinematic & often beat-bound works. So really this new collaboration finds them at the other the end of the sonic spectrum; presenting the listener with more considered, pared-back, and fragile sound worlds.

Lift A Feather To The Flood really follows on from the more pared-back, often darker, and more reflective feel of Rich’s last solo album the excellent Vestiges from last year. But with this new album, there is a much greater use of Rich’s piano- and this is used as the key focus & guide for all of the tracks here, with Reuter's guitar gentle enhancing & subtle shading the mood & shape of the tracks.

Most of the tracks retain a very languid, sparse, and slow pace- though on a one a two occasions Reuter guitar work becomes slightly more moodily simmering & pressing. This limited pace & instrumental setting may suggest that it all sounds rather samey & interchangeable, but this is not the case. As Rich skilfully managers to move his playing from more spaced & atmospherically harmonic, to tighter & more fraught, onto the slightly more hopeful & drifting, through to more angular & creepy. With Reuter masterfully adding shade & depth to the atmosphere.

From it’s outset Lift A Feather To The Flood effortlessly ushers you into it’s slow, fragile, carefully crafted, yet spell-binding world. Keeping you held & wholly captivated for its full sixty-six-minute runtime.