Olafur Arnalds knows better than most how to bridge the gap between the, for some, hard-to-stomach vagaries of classical music and avant-garde electronic pop.

Why and how? Well, it sounds simple, just mix some heartwarming orchestral strings with melancholy piano and keyboard tones and off you go. Easy huh?

Of course, it’s not easy and no doubt many people search the ends of the record stores/Internet to find the sort of gems Arnalds provides here; even if honed together to create a rather disjointed album of semi-classical statements.

As a package, it’s hard to find a reasoning behind the compositions – other than them being mightily pretty, and therefore Living Room Songs struggles to create its own raison d'être. However, if you go on YouTube you’ll find plenty of bright sparks who have done a magical job of adding film to Arnald’s backdrops, fitting expression to mood perfectly, and with wonderful interpretation.

Classical purists will, no doubt, thumb their nose at Arnald’s attempts to condense classical music’s vastly complex symphonic structures into miniature three-minute soundbites, but taken at its most base level, Living Room Songs simply provides beautifully melodic combinations of acoustics (mostly) and electronics, which, for a few fleeting moments, can genuinely make you melt.