Blondes' third LP Warmth is exemplary club music

Proudly nocturnal in spirit, Warmth is a firm collection of ten heavily rhythmic workouts in which the duo also embrace slow builders such as opener "OP Actual", where understated metallic sounding melodies blur themselves within a bed of progressively minded, ever shifting grooves.

Their first album since 2013s Fisher sees the pair make a move towards sculpting tunes often centered around a strong percussive framework such as "Clipse", a delicately pieced together work where circular melodies flit between rhythmical gaps.

Things start to take a direct path towards hypnotic techno on "Quality of Life" where steadily pulsating 4/4 beats form a trance-inducing rhythmic bedrock for atmospheric synth lines to flow over.

Elsewhere, both "Trust" and "Tens" have a small darkwave undercurrent, but still maintain Blondes' characteristic interweaving synth lines with club-ready rhythms.

Blondes' third album sees them take several steps forward, delivering a piece that's often mesmeric and always distinctively theirs.