These guys play adult-oriented guitar pop and do it rather well.

Song writing is out of the top drawer: Lively lyrics are delivered in a strong identifiable vocal, jangly guitar hooks galore & distinctive sax riffs interplay, beautiful piano and Hammond organ, distinguishable percussion you'd struggle to believe possible, and honey-coated harmonies reminiscent of 60s acoustic pop - an angelic female voice blending with 3 part male vocals like a good Scotch and water.

This Scottish band has two distinctive faces. The first truthfully handsome with a clever catchy fun pop structure delivered smoothly and immediately on the first hearing; and the other face dark haunting and wailing like a spectre having a bad day at the crypt. It's all in the blend: The music has several levels and timelessness eternal - where space, openness and melody are used to accentuate the quality of the expensive production. Then that very space is taken forcibly and contorted into an argument between voice, saxophone, wah-guitar and fiddle in a dissonance that will leave you breathless.

The Hugh Trowsers band has absorbed the best of the 70s 80s & 90s and have forged themselves a modern niche. A place where those blessed with the colour of memory will identify with the sound in a unique luxurious nostalgia.Those fresh to the world may hear it pure and free, and can take time to dream.

The circle is unbroken..