Sunstack Jones

★★★★ Golden Repair MAI 68. CD/DL/LP

Absorbing follow-up to 2018’s self-titled outing by the Chrisy Jones-led outfit.

This Liverpool based fivepiece – three guitars, bass, drums – are chiefly influenced by The Byrds, Big Star and Buffalo Springfield and as such, their songs are full of heart-tugging melodies and delightful harmonies, which ponder love, life and time’s passing, and inhabit a similar space to Teenage Fanclub and Beachwood Sparks. This fourth album was written while they were on tour with Buffalo Tom – lyrics scribbled in notebooks in the van, music worked up during soundcheck jams – so there is a beat romance to the results, especially evident on the mesmerising seven-minuteplus centrepiece Where You Gonna Go. Produced by Paul Den Heyer and recorded live at Chester’s Faktory studio by The Verve’s Simon Jones, Sunstack Jones remain under the radar but Golden Repair deserves a wider audience. Lois Wilson