Steve Adey – These Resurrections EP

With only the scarcest of offerings since his 2006 debut album All Things Real, 2011 looks to be a positively prolific year for Edinburgh-based Steve Adey, as he showcases this latest crop of tracks, with a full length LP due later in the year. As with much of Adey’s first effort, there’s an attractive contrast between the sparse instrumentation and emotional density of the end product.

Opener Tomorrow employs a skeleton-staff of piano, voice and percussion, though in its short two-and-a-half minute span, ramps from a soothing choral refrain to an intense, jarring end. Elsewhere, Adey sets the tone for a promising album to come, genre-hopping between folk and electronica on the wonderful Just Wait Till I Get You Home, and embracing his orchestral persona on the classical, string-rich instrumental Soundtrack/One. [Paul Neeson]