Hard to believe Ben Lamdin and co have already pulled another album out of the bag. Everything Under The Sun arrives hot on the heels of predecessor Borderlands winning Jazz Album Of The Year at Gilles Peterson’s Radio 1 Worldwide Awards in January and it's none the worse for it. While that record was certainly a sweet hit for serious jazz junkies and demonstrated a step away from the darker, brooding atmospherics of second album The Garden, Lambdin just keeps moving forward, here introducing vocalists Lizzy Parks and Beth Rowley for the first time on his own song-based compositions. The idea, he says, is to ‘develop the ideas explored in other records by taking the emotional moods that are there and vocalising them’ and he’s been successful on both counts. He says it’s ‘like Portishead meets Charles Mingus!’ but, so intensely delicate and affecting are the expressions within these grooves, Everything Under The Sun will appeal equally to lovers of more contemporary heroes such as the Cinematic Orchestra, Koop and even Brummie psyche exponents Broadcast. Little Steps, in particular, evokes the halcyon days of a bygone era, pale hues on a flickering film showing a spy movie of some sort – nostalgia indeed. Lamdin is a serous talent. He clearly deserves the recognition.