A WORK of quiet beauty that nevertheless stuns the senses, this is the fourth studio record by this Brooklyn trio, whose gentle waves deserve a wider audience.

Gone are some of the synthesisers and a little of the anguish of their previous work, but Doppelganger haunts, Peter Silberman’s androgynous voice and muted jazz horns slowly building. Hotel is even better; “I can’t remember how the past felt” is sung so ethereally it doesn’t matter that this is one of those rock star’s blues.

With not a note wasted, the music slowly pulses, care of the jazzy soundscapes of multi-instrumentalist Darby Cicci and Michael Lerner’s less than effortless drumming. All that brass brings warmth otherwise absent from these internal conversations. While this learned music evokes the cerebral work of Slapp Happy and perhaps Talk Talk too, Silberman has called Familiars “earned relief”, an apt description of how it worms into the listener’s brain.

• The Antlers play Leeds Belgrave Music Hall on November 2.