Pure Language, an easily digestible six-track mini-album, is Leeds resident Keef Baker's follow-up to 2004's The Widnes Years. Baker is an expert at balancing opposing temperaments. Angelic vocals are weighted with snarling attitude, dark machine noises are leavened with serene light.

Stop one on Baker's journey, the opener "Straw Overcoat" is an apt example of the artists' careful craft. The song juxtaposes warm ambience with stabbing rhythms, grounded in organic dirt. It's a hackneyed term, but organic just fits Baker's work. No surprise then that this term pops up often in his press releases.

The glistening mid-tempo "Psychiatric Credit" follows, resplendent in chimes and oboes. The sudden appearance of a skittish breakbeat again heralds Baker's darker side. Shadows give depth to light, fear permeates certainty. It's good stuff.

Listen to "The Middle", courtesy of Baker's label Ad Noiseam.