The work of Alessio Natalizia and Sam Willis, WALLS find themselves opening for Battles during their US tour this month. One can understand why, as the duo's sophomore album is perfect fare for warming the cockles and calming the excitement of any prospective feverish post-gig punters. At only 36 minutes long, WALLS could practically play Coracle in its entirety.

The album offers a spatial environment of echoey backgrounds and melodious keyboard tones that flicker with sonic effects, vocal samples and spring-loaded Krautrock guitars - akin to post-rock experimentalists Seefeel; they share a similar liking for morphing ambient strains with fuzzy shoegaze.

Perhaps WALLS are a little more excitable; occasionally bursting out of their shell with edgier, dance-oriented tinglers on tracks such as Sunporch and Il Tedesco - loudening the spectrum by throwing lampooning beats into the mix.

For the most part, however, Coracle is a rather lovely album of shimmering guitars and glacial synths that should appeal to the deep-thinking daydreamer in all of us, with a handful of sprinkled glacial melodies also helping to make much of the music stick. Raw Umber/Twilight ups the anti to delve into poppy electronica - the most satisfying aspect of Coracle, perhaps, is that Natalizia and Willis do not reign in the music to fit the cast, but allow the ideas behind the instrumentals to unfurl and reach their true potential.

Having said that, the closing Drunken Galleon's smooth sine waves and glistening guitars are so mesmerically ambient, you kind of wish another 10 similar tracks would follow.