Ranging from latin blues and bossas to up-tempo waltzes and straightforward tender ballads, this immediately likable album, like many debuts, showcases a whole variety of bassist Terry Packs compositional and bandleading skills. In flautist/saxophonist Ian Price, hes found a sensitive interpreter of his accessible, even catchy melodies (particularly the slower numbers, where Prices mellow tenor tone comes into its own); drummer Dave Storey is brisk and neat; pianist Frances Knight unfussily lyrical; guitarist Phil Hudson a thoughtful soloist. It is Packs big, warm bass sound that focuses attention throughout, though, and with discreet percussive touches added by Will Fry and the occasional acoustic-guitar intervention from Enrico Pinna, this is an attractive album of what might be termed (mostly) gentle groove music in a variety of styles and settings, embellished by solos in which the group sound and momentum is clearly more important to the musicians than individualist grandstanding. A band to watch out for.