State Broadcasters - Our Favourite Park

Glasgow six-piece State Broadcasters’ new single Our Favourite Park is a familiar lesson in Scottish folk/twee Americana. With rich instrumentation (strings, glockenspiel, tambourines and jangly guitars), bluntly melancholic lyrics and strong local accents, this pleasant pop song unavoidably calls fellow Scots Broken Records and We See Lights to mind. Released on Stow College label Electric Honey, Our Favourite Park - perhaps not coincidentally - evoke elements of Belle and Sebastian but without the requisite jauntiness and would surely resonate with fans of that group's style. This stands them in good stead for the release of their forthcoming debut LP. [Lauren Mayberry]