Releasing a song called "Solstice Sun" on the very cusp of summer's longest day demonstrates the temporal precision that hints at the thoughtful construction lurking beneath this deceptively gentle collaboration between Nick Byrne and Tom Symmonds. For the Buckinghamshire-based Byrne, whose previous singles "Houses" and "Summer Rain" established him as a purveyor of fingerpicked melancholia worthy of comparison to Novo Amor and Keaton Henson, this new partnership represents both artistic evolution and natural progression.