meaning, whilst returning back to 'This is our song' in How The Hell Do I Explain?. This album contains questions such as 'do you fear you'll fall into a hole if you don't pretend you're very tall' that Hello, and to an extent, their full blown debut Emoticons, didn't answer.

In truth, you do get the impression that Ben Parker and Jason Hazeley are taking things a lot more seriously. Yet it all still has that shambolic quality that is the ideology of an acoustic guitar and a bottle of whiskey. With a double-bass in the background helping keep everything modern in a Lamb kind of way it also holds on to that beatitude that last year's 'tramp of the decade' shuffled up on stage to get a Mercury Music Prize for (Badly Drawn Boy). It's as if busking becomes baroque yet elegant, with sultry strings and an even more elegant eclecticism that hasn't been touched upon since Neil Young or Simon and Garfunkel.

Miranda Schunke