This album is a bit twee. Not in the annoying sense but, in the sense of how Orange Juice or Aztec Camera in their early days were twee – a bit childlike and refreshing with it, not just flaunting their incompetence for the sake of it.
I have a very clear childhood memory of seeing these guys do ‘Birdhouse In Your Soul’ on Top Of The Pops about twenty five years ago and they haven’t changed one bit, if the sounds on here are anything to go by.
This is a funny and unforced album, where you feel like you’re in the song, as they paint very good pictures with very few words. It’s a refreshing antidote to all that angst out there in the world at the moment.