As a colleague of one and a collaborator sharer of the other, Leila’s often been favourably aligned with Bjork and Tricky; sadly, though, while Gudmundsdottir and Thaws’ more indulgent moments maintain a certain fascination, Ms Arab is undone by her own disengagement here. Her fourth album does come alive midway through, mind – ‘Interface’ is arrestingly stereo-shredding, while ‘Boudica’’s stern motorik menaces and ‘In Motion Slow’ uses its glaciality to genuinely graceful ends – but, prior to that, it’s largely uninspired and generic dance music, all industrialised dystopia and insouciant dehumanisation, making ‘U&I’ an often prosaic return.

Iain Moffat