Originally released on Road Cone back in 2000, 'Fig. 5' was a record that looked back to the previous century and pushed forward into the new. Almost like a short hand Harry Smith, the album is an anthology of American music – although instead of the academic approach that Smith took in painstakingly, comprehensively capturing and cataloguing the pure folk and bluegrass of old, JOMF take things from memory, putting their own freewheeling spin on folk, spirituals, blues and jazz and moulding it into a modern sound all their own.

Bleary opener ‘Analogue Skillet’ starts things on a queasy, seasick note. Synth notes bob, bend and warble, producing a strange, droning, Doppler effect, whizzing past the listener like vehicles on a Tron superhighway. The drones and bleeps give way to the empty spaces of ‘Native Einstein’, whose bells and cymbals and scraping violins seem to speak of desolation and loss. The track builds tension and momentum, never quite slotting into a steady rhythm or melody. The next track, ‘Your Cells Are In Motion_’ comes then like a salve, with its cyclical guitar line and martial drums, instantly grounding the listener with melody and pace. JOMF build on these with a droning guitar and wordless vocals, the drums becoming more insistent, the guitars growing louder, hitting a transcendental, joyful post-rock breakdown.