Fourth

Trestle Records release the new record from Tout. The aptly named Fourth. Fourth ushers in a change of direction with core members Nick Downes and Jonathan Fryer composing the principle tracks as a duo in their London studio. Once these were established and recorded they both reached out with invitations to a host of collaborators, mostly friends, to complement and expand upon their foundational elements. Fourth finds Tout delving deeper into the bands interest in contemporary classical, jazz and ambient music, whilst still retaining some of the aesthetic preoccupations of the previous records which largely explored folk and new age traditions. The result is a thoughtful and continuously exploratory textural world that is at once melodically satisfying whilst being structurally experimental.