Pointing Excitedly to the Sky is Cocosuma's second UK release, but its 13 tracks are actually cobbled together from two albums from the trio's native France, 2004's Reindeer Show the Way and 2005's We Were A Trio. It speaks well to the group's several strengths that these songs flow together so naturally that it's impossible to tell that they were originally recorded over such a timespan, or that they were recorded during a period of intra-band tension. (The title of We Were A Trio, as well as the barely audible whispered lyrics of the song of the same name, allude to the fact that singer Kacey left the band during the recording sessions.) In its blend of airy electronics — both in the sense of pleasing insubstantiality and in reference to Cocosuma's fellow electronics-oriented Parisians — and dreamy twee-pop melodies, Pointing Excitedly to the Sky bears comparison to late-era St. Etienne, with Kacey's low-key, cooing vocals a fair counterpoint to the British trio's Sarah Cracknell. The songs tend to the moody and minor-key; even comparatively upbeat songs like Drizzling Yet Dazzling are suffused with the sense of pleasant melancholy that the Brazilians call saudade. More common are slightly morose downers like the longing Did You Ever See and the minimalist first half of the instrumental Daisy's Face, which does at least stir itself into a pleasant acoustic guitar melody a little over halfway through. And yet, even at the album's darkest, Kacey's fellow first-names-only partners, multi-instrumentalist producers Chab and Michelle, fill the lighter than air arrangements with sounds of such pure loungey beauty that Pointing Excitedly to the Sky is never less than a pleasure.