With two albums under their belt, it’s easy to believe that Zero 7 have reached their plateau, and are now simply trotting out the tracks that they think they need to make in order to maintain relevance. Easy to believe, but difficult to fathom.

The Garden, the duo’s second album, can’t help but feel different from the moment “Futures” kicks it off. With Swedish-Argentine Jose Gonzalez contributing vocals to that track as well as “Left Behind” and a cover of his own “Crosses”, it’s far more organic than Zero 7 have been before, with the interplay of acoustic guitar melded into their hushed electronic tones. It’s all very Pink Floyd, to be honest.

Once more, Adelaide-born songstress Sia steals the show on “Throw It All Away”, “The Pageant of the Bizarre”, and “If I Can’t Have You”, while on “This Fine Social Scene” and album closer “Waiting to Die” she combines her tones with Henry Binns to nice effect.

If a criticism is to be levelled at The Garden it’s that it is thematically not far removed from Zero 7’s debut and their follow-up, When It Falls. Whilst the utilisation of Gonzalez and Sia is integral to The Garden, it could be argued that too much of the album feels like a project for them rather than a Zero 7 project.