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The Soundings, the third album from Andy Dragazis's Blue States project sees the now London-based three piece shift direction again, albeit ever so slightly. Still lushly orchestrated and arranged with bags of cinematic charm, Blue States sound more like a band than ever before. Guitar and vocalist Chris Carr sings on most of the 10 songs with a gentle voice that every so often breaks into Morrissey-esque musings and never more so than on the melancholy album closer, "Sad Song". This extremely British vocal combined with steady, crisp drums, acoustic guitar and a wall of strings, organs and electric guitar is reminiscent in grandeur to Spiritualised.

The funkiest number is the opener "Across the Wire" where a straightforward, upbeat trip-hop groove is underpinned by imposing strings that add a certain gravity while maintaining the accessibility of the tune. Instrumentals "One Night on Tulane" and "Output" are more likely what fans of Nothing Changes will be waiting for--eerie soundscapes with a retro-futurist twist; the former full of grandeur and hairs on the back of your neck moments and the latter