Never one to be labeled, the fearsomely talented and multiple award-winning Laura Jurd has a Miles Davis-esque way of taking her work and tuning it to illuminate a vast array of musical worlds. On Wonder Trail, the sophomore album from her Mercury Prize nominated band Dinosaur, she's plundered the synth-pop of the 1980s for a new sound. But this is not gratuitous borrowing, or hipsterish, retro post-modernism. With keyboard maestro Elliot Galvin to the fore, it's the use of the synth as the core sound that brings it all together. Within, around and over this hovers Jurd's clear-toned trumpet sound which manages to be hot and cool without any apparent expenditure of energy, showcasing the power and incisiveness of her improvising and technique.