With two former members on paternity leave and their core membership down to three, Tuva Rock finds these south Siberian alt. folk rockers getting back to basics. Despite being a regular feature of their current live shows, the band's sole female contributor Sailyk Ommun only features as a "guest vocalist" on one track and supplies the occasional flourish on the giant Tuvan zither the group are named after. As the name would suggest, Tuva Rock concentrates on Albert Kuvezin's grinding electric guitar more than their previous album Aldyn Dashka. That in itself isn't a problem. Rock is back in vogue big time, and when this band decide to rock out, as on the driving "Langchyy Boom" and the extraordinary "Dorug Daiym", they're very impressive. Radical reworkings of traditional Tuvan folk songs have always been their speciality, and fortunately there's still plenty of igil and morinhuur (Tuvan stringed instruments) in evidence.