Recorded back in 2011 when Coxon made A+E and released this month, the album overflows with Coxon’s keen pop instincts, channelling a fair bit of 1960s power pop and 1970s new wave in the process. Bouncy opener ‘Billy Says’ draws from The Kinks and The Jam and, straight out of A Hard Day’s Night-era Beatles, ‘When You Find Out’ was plucked from The Nerves’ mid-1970s discography. The teenager-in-a-small-town references on ‘Alright’ to ‘the lane’ and pulling ‘just for fun’ are punctuated by breezy whistling. Elsewhere, Coxon adds in economical guitar solos, woven around the vocal melodies with little sour variations and a dash of double tracking.

Strum-along ‘Easy’ is a charming and melodic delight. On ‘Isn't It Funny’ Scott Walker’s dark melodrama is compellingly undercut by Coxon’s conversational and nasal Essex brogue, with a little dark psychedelia thrown in. Maintaining the wistful English mood, ‘Mélodie Pour Christine’ gets close to Nick Drake’s baroque instrumentals ‘Introduction’ and ‘Sunday’. Closing on a more cynical note, the lo-fi ‘All the Rage’ is foggy with reverb. But even here there is a lightness of touch, a sense of letting go. As a brass section closes the song out, we are back at the bandstand where Coxon drunkenly danced as a teenager all those years ago: ‘a life so unforgettable,’ he sings, ‘but it really doesn’t matter’