The Drink – Roller (from the album Capital, Melodic Records)

Fantastic follow up to last year’s debut album Company which brings to mind John Peel’s old adage about The Fall – always the same, always different.

First single ‘Roller’ calls on the same elements as found on Company – Dearbhla Minogue’s cascades of fingerpicked guitar lines, her vocals swinging between soft and full-throated but always wonderfully quixotic, shifting time signatures and a brilliantly restrained rhythm section with the odd nod to math rock.

There’s also that style of songwriting which has an air of mystery but still seems to be having a laugh, all this and managing to steer clear of pretentiousness.

It all comes out sounding fresh as a daisy and amounts once more to top drawer left field guitar pop.