Is it trite to say that ‘The Best I Could’, the first track on this four-song EP, engenders feelings similar to those felt when listening to the theme tune from The Littlest Hobo? That’s not supposed to be an offensive comparison – both songs do that positivity-tinged-with-regret-and-sadness thing that creates a sense of warmth and the aural equivalent of an embrace that promises ‘everything, probably, is going to be alright’.

In an Oxfordshire-via-California musical vein shared by acts like The Epstein, Goldrush and so on, I’ll Never Go Anywhere Without Her Now is a bit folk, a bit country, a bit Americana: you get the picture. Whilst not reinventing any desert-blown wagon wheels, and although the four tracks here tend towards variations on a theme rather than glimpses into a multi-layered set of influences, it’s all handled proficiently and with a lightness of touch that suggests passion and self-belief, which are always good traits to display.

The songs could do, perhaps, with a bit of bite – one man’s delicacy is another man’s blandness, unfortunately, and there’s a nagging personal desire to hear a slug of feedback or a howl of anguish – but that’s as much to do with the recording style (soft, warm and rounded) as with one’s personal reactions to the music. It’s a heartfelt collection of songs, and that’s not to be sniffed at, even if it may not particularly, um, feel your heart…