“Do whatever you need to free yourself,” inspirits Rahel Debebe-Dessalegne of London-based three-piece Hejira on Joyful Mind, and this second number to have been disentangled from their forthcoming Thread of Gold full-length hears she, Sam Beste, and Alex Reeve very much practising that which she’s preaching. For once some recherché Ethiopian field recordings subdue, a freeform, magnificently permutable track emerges: Debebe-Dessalegne’s vocal, redolent of Yukimi Nagano, is dextrously interwoven with slick guitar licks and sumptuously lithe strings, with real elan. “Maintain a joyful mind” she’ll implore, and this one certainly inspires that sort of cerebral state with both grace and guile alike.

Thread of Gold is available from February 22^nd via Lima Limo Records, while Hejira play Oslo on March 7^th.