Is there some concrete theory to prove that the second songs on albums are particularly good? “Taizee” by Woo, wraps the listener in a half-medieval-sounding blanket of tinny strings. A possibly more attractive way to imagine this song is as some interlude on a Shin’s album. It is simple, but its lovely sway (guided by almost invisible bass notes) is a spell, conjuring images of a skipping-in-slow-motion scene from a sepia-tone film. Relaxing – each twangy pluck, articulated and separate, is fed to the audience as a sequence as peaceful as engineering and intent can be.

“Taizee” by Woo – Into the Heart of Love, 2015 (Cloud Nine Music)