The Unit Ama take their time. They act on their own terms. This applies to their music and their work-rate. Two albums and a handful of singles in twenty years. Sporadic gigs. No endless Bandcamp messages or weekly mailing list updates. Rare missions outside their native north-east. Then they released Toward, their second studio album that was released digitally in May and is available for pre-order on vinyl via Gringo Records. It’s not their ‘pandemic’ album but does see the band considering the important things: post-traumatic growth, insight through experience and utilising the past to navigate towards a meaningful future. Toward was self-produced and will probably get tagged as post-hardcore which is fair enough. But it’s also informed by post-punk, jazz and folk, and by working close...