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Convened via East London's jazz-fusion scene, this ambitious trio combine ethereal and often wondrously abstract songcraft with intrepid post-Kid A hi-tech sound sculpture. Produced by Matthew Herbert, this debut unfolds like an avant-garde psychodrama, each of Dave Okumu's songs a puzzling new chapter of gravity-defying structure and unfathomable components. At their straight-up rockiest ('Monster's Waltz', 'Time Waits'), The Invisible recall Doves, Jeff Buckley or, most plausibly, TV On The Radio, but their true magic lies in the strange, seductive, inexplicable stuff in between — 'OK''s spectral take on Prince-ly funk, the Steely Dan-meets-Radiohead otherness of 'Jacob & The Angel'. Here, then, is a new pop — hyper-modern, speculative and unutterably thrilling.
