Album: Jonny by Jonny

As a collaboration between Euros Childs (formerly of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci) and Norman Blake (of Teenage Fanclub) it's easy to see where this album draws its references from. Summery, shimmery indiepop is the order of the day here.

Huge slices of the whimsical and the twee are served up here that will have your toes tapping and your head nodding. They wander off this familiar track part way through the ten minute Cave Dance, it positively encourages self-aware hipster chin stroking and hits dim while possibly aiming for dark (this isn't a bad thing by the way).

There is an innocence and playfulness in bucketfuls, so much so that lead tracks Wich is Wich and Candyfloss could be mistaken for incidental music from a long forgotten psycholdelic children's programme from the 1970s.

From the gather-around-the-old-piano sing-a-long of Waiting Around for You, the ghost of Shed Seven on The Goodnight (I know, you weren't expecting that were you) and country-foot-stomp of I'll Make Her My Best Friend this is an album mostly made of smiles, handlebar ribbons flapping in the wind as you freewheel in the sunshine and kittens.

A gentle, jaunty and melodic escape. If you've listened to either of their previous bands and liked then this will bolster your collection nicely.