The fourth album from ambient shakers Sounds from the Ground, finds the two Londoners Nick Woolfson and Eliot James stepping back from the vocal-heavy warmth of NATURAL SELECTION and heading into a more chillbient, dub-style territory. There's still plenty of positive energy here; the soul shaking "Move On" has a sultry female vocal cooing over a wavy trip-hop groove that sounds just as ready for meditation as it does the dance floor. "Razz" brings a tabla-centric sense of stasis to its dub space frequencies, and there's some haunting ambient/trance lushness with "London Fields." When all that spacey loveliness proves too much, some serious street-cred-level funkiness comes along with "Ten Tons of Dope" which is served in extra-blunted fashion by a Dillinger vocal; and the bass line on "As the Day Goes By" is heavier than a kid's eyelids at 6 a.m., when this party is just getting started. In short, LUMINAL is mind candy at its finest; invigorating, contemplative, quietly spiritual, and lowdown funky all at once.