Here they’ve burned off the quirk to reveal something great.
From start to finish each track complements the previous and draws you into the next, being almost contextualised by its surroundings.
It's a more focused than their debut, sticking solely with that sort of Guillemots-goes-Fabric – intricate, oblique, expertly played – but that dipping into different sounds was part of the fun, and it's missed here.
Ultimately what disappoints is the dour inevitably of it all, insert-climax-here tunes wafting and wintry, gliding wistfully in one ear and out the other.