Evocative, orphic Berlin electro-poppers Tarwater have been forging some of Germany’s best electronic and bucolic sounds since their gentle inception a decade ago. Reminiscent in parts of Steve Reich’s minimalism, Teutonic techno’s pulsing rhythms and elegant indie’s wry melodicism, the nimble, insouciant duo – that’s Bernd Jestram and To Rococo Rot’s Ronald Lippok – are essential fore-runners in a European conveyance of abstract, alliterative, organic music, that also counts Mouse on Mars and Kreidler among its genial freight. Tarwater’s recent album, The Needle Was Travelling (Morr Music), is a quietly striking, dulcet masterpiece. Characterised by Lippock’s deadpan, detached delivery and a mildly animated technological aesthetic, it’s a gurgling, prowling salutation: our friends remain a curious, conspicuous concern.