Change, as we are frequently told, is good. It’s certainly an ethic that has worked for Cork’s Waiting Room, who have taken great leaps with their second album, Catering For Headphones. While their debut Losing Patience was a more straightforward affair, this release finds them heading down a more experimental, complex path.

Catering For Headphones is out now on Out On A Limb. Waiting Room play Half Moon, Cork (February 12), High Stool Limerick (13), Tower Records, Dublin (14 @ 1pm), Sugar Club, Dublin (14), Aunt Annie’s Belfast (15), Nerve Centre, Derry (16), Mullingar (19), Skellys, Ballymahon (20)