German-born saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock has shifted her goalposts since her move to New York – from pensive melodiousness to tough, muscular free-jazz. This lineup with drummer Tom Rainey and deconstructionist guitarist Mary Halvorson further raises the bar it set on 2010's Anti-House. Laubrock's expanding sound palette is apparent from the smeary tone-bends, pure sounds and Albert Ayleresque spookiness over bumpy brushwork on Expectation of Exception. Her Evan Parker-inspired multiphonic storms on tenor are sometimes spine-tinglingly driven by Halvorson's robot noises and dense chording, but when the sax-power drops to a guttural whisper alongside stealthy percussion and buoyant guitar, it sounds like regular jazz only sparingly tweaked into atonalism. Halvorson's harmonic imagination is fascinating on the electronically shaded Strada Senza Nome, and the hurtling Leapfrog is a free-sax piledriver. It's for the improv-acclimatised, but regular jazz listeners will recognise some distantly familiar landmarks.