By adopting a name like Dining Rooms Stefano Ghettoni and Censare Malfetti are inviting themselves to be lumped-in with the lounge core element that seems to inhabit every hotel with an over-priced bar these days.
That aside, their music is markedly preferable to most of the offerings that currently emanate from the chill out genre.
'Tunnel' is a case in point. A rich and soulful jazz ballad, it rises above most of its ilk and reaches back to pre-'Moon Safari' downbeat high points, such as the 'Original Bedroom Rockers' EP.
The album certainly isn't dancefloor heavy, but there is a wealth of textures here. 'Tunnel' eventually leads us into the more uptempo jazz dance of 'La Citta Nuda', which itself leads onto the bossa hip hop of the string laden 'Fluxus'.
'Dreamy' is stuffed with reefer-fuelled ambience, while 'You' ripples like a Bellafone over a punchy break beat and chocolate brown vocalist Sean Martin returns for 'Fighting For Re-Birth', a frayed, late night bar room croon.
The best reason for not mentioning 'Prigioniero del Deserto' would be that it's a bugger to spell. Unfourtunately it's the main track on which the duo up the pace and begin to show their drum programming skills, so mention it we must.
'African Loungesters' again sees a more prominent drum track come to the fore and 'Existentialism' is similarly beat-worthy, resting on a laid back bass and rippling congas, while their version of Sun Ra's 'Astro' returns to more spaced themes with Anna Clementi providing the vocals.
Pleasant rather than earth shattering, the Dining Rooms have got to be big at the Supper Club. Surely.
