City Centre Offices, that continental brook of modern electrics that babbles like the compere in Scarface (“Another great night here at the Babylon…Do another gram, then you’ll all be babblin’ on.”), has all but babbled out recently, fueling paranoia among fans that its stockrooms are filling with accountants and cobwebs. Could it be that Ulrich Schnauss took the club money with him when he jumped in the Domino limousine? If he did he left a deep set of tire racks in his wake which ensemble five-piece the Seasons have done a fine job of tracing, throwing in their own helping of lounge on the way as they scurry nosefirst along the trail.

The bespoke brand of jazztronica dabbled in here in is a welcome first breath after CCO’s recent downtime, and this seven-minute primer for the Seasons’ upcoming Undone LP is eating up the mildew like a Frenchman. On “Rayon Vert,” pinballs circle round windsock synths while snare drums twitch on the horizon, the whole thing doused with analogue condiments till it’s cooler than Sinatra’s Gauloise. Personally the jazz angle’s never said much to me—I grew up in love with The Fast Show —but the whiff of ingenuity glimmering here is ripe enough to set most heads turning. The Seasons’ sound may not be a dish to all tastes but it’s unquestionably an original fusion, and after all, if someone offered to cook you a jalapeno and white chocolate flan you’d be daft not to try just a nibble, wouldn’t you?

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