It’s been a long time coming forBeneath The Sleepy Lagoon, Ghostplane’s debut long-player. Their EP, The Panther Valley Country Club, was an assured debut but they’ve raised the bar here. Thanks, in part, must go to new member Mike Scudder, whose trombone, keyboards and percussion add extra textures to the alt-country meets indie-rock song templates.

Touchstones are sometimes obvious (traces of Beck and The Beta Band permeate Lazy Bones) but most often hinted at (Southern Hill combines the feel of Calexico’s musical tumbleweeds with the indie Kiwi approach of Mestar and Fang).

Elsewhere there are traces of The Pixies, Superette, The Mutton Birds and – to my ears – Robert Wyatt (In Blue Light) but to mention too man