After his last year limited Matters release on Benbecula, London based Michael Santos joins the U-cover rooster with his excellent follow up called 'Soft Pocket'. This release is a collection of structured tracks based around carefully controlled swells of sound and textured harmonics. Michael Santos collates processed guitar recordings and laces them with static, hiss and ground failure noises to create a dynamic flow of sound. The nine tracks on offer exhibit unusually rigid arrangements, building and reworking phrases to keep the flow moving and ensuring it doesn't get swamped in endless loops. Principally, however, Santos's approach zooms in on melody, as 'Soft Pocket' showcases a diverse mix, ranging from melancholy and introvreted to warm and bouncy.