" data-original-title="" title="">Slowly Rolling Camera's self-titled debut (Edition, 2014) to Silver Shadow feels like hearing two different bands entirely. Granted, they switched from vocal songs to all-instrumental pieces along the way, so just about any outfit would sound completely changed. Besides that obvious shift in tone, though, this trio's electro-jazz-hop fusion has also come a long way in itself—and yet to those who might have followed them all along, the path leading from that point to this has been a series of perfectly understandable turns. You can hear a throughline of vivid and patient moods all along, while each album stakes out its own niche and their knack for soundscaping continues to evolve.

The cinematic feel is of course central to the group (the clue is in the name), and so with those distinct identities, their recordings can easily feel like chapters in one long soundtrack. However picturesque the group sounded with the quietly intense R&B of the early albums with singer