Clocking in at just under half an hour, the Empty Estate EP is Jack Tatum's second between-LP effort for Captured Tracks, and a welcome teaser for whatever he has planned for full-length number three, ranging from the instrumental drift of "On Guyot" and "Hachicko" to the increasingly electro-laced new New Wave with which Tatum has mainly made his mark to date, best exemplified here by the laidback swagger of "Ocean Repeating (Big-Eyed Girl)" and "Data World"'s insistent toms and needly synth.
"Empty Estate feels like an arrival of sorts, a move from the quieter hum of his earlier work into full-blown pop territory, without losing any of the warmth that has made his music so great in the first place. 'A Dancing Shell' is all pastel synths and soft bass-led funk, with an appropriately bright video to along with it." - The FADER