On their seventh album – the first since 2018’s The Hands – the core trio is joined by two guest brass players – trumpeter Goran Kajfes and trombonist Mats Aleklint – for a neat, streamlined set of jams that feels like a surprisingly mellow return to basic principles.

There’s an almost Harold Alexander-like exuberance to his work here, though, rooted more in the European avant-garde than 1970s groove music. But the fact that Fire! can cover so much territory within the free-jazz context—and on such a regular basis—means that we’re not only likely to embark on new explorations with the troupe shortly, but we’ll also be encountering new vistas of sound along the way.