THIS album abounds in quality acoustic music as Oysterband get back to basics.

Unplugged sessions in a village hall on the Welsh borders produced a rich crop of songs which have benefited from sublime arrangements.

Different sound textures are carefully layered to bring out violin, cello, guitar, harmonium, accordion and percussion, plus other instruments.

Chopper's delicate mbira introduction allows the opening track, Over The Water, to build into a stirring, chorus-driven anthem.

Chopper contributes Dylanesque harmonica over guitarist Alan Presser's intense strumming in the protest song Here Comes The Flood, with its passionate lyrics.

Control, inspired by rap, has a Motown flavour, while Dancing As Fast As I Can provides an epic ending, with sublime choral harmonies and snare drums.

These Oysters have produced a pearl.