Okkervil River @ Stereo, Glasgow, 6 Oct

Honey Harper seems strangely at home in the Stereo basement. His early start time means that there's perhaps only 20 people present when he comes on, but his laconic, country croon manages to romanticise this basement. Things fill up during the set, and there's a solid crowd by the time Will Sheff and his relatively new Okkervil River bandmates take the stage.

Opening with Pulled Up the Ribbon, the band immediately set a much more 'rock' tone, trying their best to shimmy and shuck around the tiny stage, on which they struggle to fit anyway. The first half of the set, with the exception of It Ends With a Fall, is drawn from the band's more recent material (post-The Silver Gymnasium), with the wistful, rambling Famous Tracheotomies a particular highlight.

The Velocity of Saul at the Time of his Conversion, a relative deep cut from 2003's Down the River of Golden Dreams, serves as a sort of intermission as Sheff relates the stressful time when he and Jonathan Meiburg were recording the album, before a gentle, two-man rendition. But from there on out it's nothing but hits (the loose, hazy new song Skiptracer notwithstanding).

The run of John Allyn Smith Sails, Black, The Valley and Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe is pure gold, demonstrating the depth in this band's back catalogue and making everyone wonder why they've been perennial also-rans throughout their career. A poignant, reworked version of Lost Coastlines provides the emotional apex of the evening before a rollicking Unless It Kicks caps off a fantastically exuberant performance, perfectly encapsulating the joy of writing and playing that can be heard on their new album, In The Rainbow Rain, after the somewhat dour melancholia of 2016's Away.