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What was Alt. Country? Lyle Lovett, right? That song about riding a pony on a boat. Nashville instrumentation given an eccentric new wave twist that harked back to the tailfin gloss of the mid-50s. Two decades on and things are altogether more laidback, even bluesy, in the areas where the country mainstream blurs into more rootsy styles, and a prime example of a band making both credible and quality music that bridges more than one genre is this Austin 5 piece.

The album cover features a "'Heathens" petrol pump and this is, I'm supposing, to alert us to the fact that...