- Seekae have always travelled slightly apart from any other sound that’s going on. Slow, but interesting rhythms - slightly math rock, maybe? - but electronic, a little jazzy and quite moody too. Every band wants to be that mysterious stranger that some idiot music-journalist refers to as, "oh...they’re utterly unclassifiable." Hand in your journalism degree at the door before leaving, guy, but, back to Seekae, they’ve just been unconcerned, following their own muse to where it took them.

For their third full-length it led them to a new record label, Future Classic, and speculations that the move to the dance-centric label would have Seekae speeding up their beats. Actually, the most obvious change is the now ubiquitous presence of Alex Cameron’s vocals. They push some other things out of the way, like some of those interesting rhythms that used to be Seekae’s trademark. These darkly electro vocal tracks end up being like a slightly less enervated version of the musical ennui pioneered by the perpetually exhausted Jamie XX. Still, it’s hard to stamp out the smarts of Seekae, and most of The Worry comes across with a feeling of flinty intelligence.

That sensation grows across the record, as the band seem to become more comfortable with their new, urban digs and relaxed enough to consider throwing out a few interesting curve-balls. The grinding bass of Oxen Calm or playing off the standard, medicated vocal of The Stars Below with a sharply detonating techno beat, that’s great! Maybe some of these dancier numbers are the ones that they first played to Future Classic, they really work.

I think, as always with Seekae, that the only way that they know is their own. They seem moderately surprised when they discover other ears are on the same wavelength as their own. Again, typically, I find myself slipping in and out of their headspace. I don’t even need one Jamie XX in my music collection, never mind two, but, finally, Seekae are too unpredictable to really ever bore me, now, as always, I know I’ll be back for more.

- Chris Cobcroft.