Across nine albums UK artist Adam Scrimshire has carved out his own elegant and idiosyncratic niche, blending jazz, R’n’B, soul and funk with electronic and dance genres, utilising an audio palette of gently strummed acoustic guitar, piano and bass guitar along with assorted Moogs, Rhodes, Mellotrons, and sampled beats and studio trickery, expertly blending futurist and organic elements. For this, his tenth album, he’s dropped the tempo and most of the danceability, focusing instead on gentle moods and sonic textures redolent of Autumn. Music For… actually originated back in 2021 from an attempt to make a piece of music a day, in an hour, the results of which became an EP, tracks from which now make up part of this album. The overall mood here is soft, wholesome, very occasionally sombre; the melodies are pretty, warm and welcoming; the tracks build unassumingly, with only the retro synth leads — that can seem imbued with a hint of ‘70s haunted nostalgia — providing fleeting hints of a darker mood. If you had to categorise various songs here, you could perhaps say some are sophistrip hop, jazz-ish electro-acoustic, pastoral downtempronica, mutant dub folk; regardless of what you call it, Music For… is a gorgeous, gently enchanting affair.