Cinematic in scope, but occasionally stumbling into an aural morass, Sligo's Túcan clearly mean business as they train their wide-angle lens on Towers.
Opening with the precision-engineered Prelude, they cleave to the less-is-more approach, achieving a fine balance between mood, rhythm and pacing.
Here, Túcan are at their best, as the subtlest of brass sections intersects with scalpel-clear guitar lines and some finely judged vocals from violinist Claudia Schwab.
Gradually though, they sacrifice their almost architectural silhouette to the lure of 1970s-fuelled prog-rock guitar riffs.
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Towers hints at a band with imaginative leanings, but for now, these amount to not much more than noodlings crying out for more time and attention in the studio.
