It all has to do with it.

Town & Country’s second album does much the same, at first glance, as their self-titled debut – acoustic chamber minimalism, generally slowly paced, and mutating at micro level. The difference is the compositions – they feel a little richer, busier, with thornier tangles between the instruments, such as near the end of “Hat Versus Hood,” where the oft-present harmonium hum provides bedrock for richly entwining strings of various forms. “Fine Italian Hand” follows, with a gentle guitar tattoo repeating, off in the distance, as string basses and trumpet land in abstruse patterns, bell-tone vibes dropping decisively amidst this shifting landscape. It’s friendlier, perhaps, than their debut, less austere, but still graceful and distinguished.