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Opening track ‘We Can Find Love’ is an amorous, fragile number with a sweet piano loop that paves the way beautifully for ‘I Bade Thee Farewell’; The Four Tet comparisons are plain to hear here with its intricate acoustic guitar work, DJ Shadowesque beats and melancholy strings.

‘Micro Valley’ is the most dreamy of all the tracks; the beat pattern changes and injects a venomous bounce into the track. ‘A Break For Rain’ has real atmospheric scope and ‘Finally Rooted’ a shimmering jazz opus complete the highlights of the album.

What’s confusing though is, ‘When I Were Young’, which is pure Brian Wilson but far too twee for these ears, just sounds like it was bundled in at the last minute.

Whilst Lost Idol does wear his influences on his shelve he does however reinterpret them enough in such a way to claim the work as his own. I can’t help but feel though that minus the vocal tracks, Utters would be quite a strong body of instrumental work.

With these things considered Utters does skilfully strike a balance between the live and technological and is a LP with great depth and beauty worth exploring.