One of the flag bearers of contemporary British jazz, Dinosaur's rise to more international renown accelerated with its signing to Edition Records, and the subsequent release of Together, As One (2016) and Wondertrail. (2018). Formerly known as the Laura Jurd Quartet, the band had already been going since 2010, releasing one album, Landing Ground (Chaos Collective, 2012) to general critical approval. Each album displays significant personality—the embrace of strings, or analogue keyboards—and Jurd's refusal to tread the same stylistic water. To The Earth follows the quartet's onwards-and-upwards trajectory, despite reverting to the almost entirely acoustic sound of its early days.

Repeated listening reveals the depth in the arrangements, but what is immediately striking is the accessibility of Jurd's tunes—catchy and memorable all. On the title track, Jurd and pianist