The quartet of Ben Wolkins/tp-fh, Ian Blunden/g, Eric Nachtrab/b and Sean Perlmutter/dr create modern post bop sounds on this release of originals. Wolkins has a bold Freddie Hubbardish sound as on the plodding and dark “Show Me Something Beautiful” and lyrical with Blunden and Nachtrab for “A Collarbone and Eight Ribs”. Nachtrab is elliptical on the impressionistic “Ember” and is featured on the meditative “Approaching” with a subtle swing provided by Perlmutter’s cymbals during “The Less You Know”. Most of the songs are subtle and soulful, with a hard rockish charge on “For A Croc” the exception. Hues of noir.