Watching Goldrush play is like watching a game of musical chairs. Joe Bennett and Jef Clayton switch between bass and keyboards, guitarist Garo takes to the drums, while singer, guitarist and tambourine-shaker Robin Bennett - the band's cheeky-faced charmer, with an irrepressible enthusiasm and face-splitting grin - waits patiently.

The band's debut album, Don't Bring Me Down, was released last autumn on their own label, Truck Records; the Truck brand also extends to their studios and own personal festival, held each summer in deepest, darkest Oxfordshire.

Their songs take on transient shapes, shifting from country rock to purest pop, accommodating a tuba and a trumpet with keyboard beeps never too far away. "This is dedicated to Ride," Robin announces, revealing unexpected influences. "They were a great band."

But when The Counting Song begins, it's another bunch of outsiders with a knack for feelgood tunes shot through with a life-affirming attitude, The Charlatans, that Goldrush most resemble. The enigmatically named G provides a steady drumbeat as Garo's guitar ripples melodically, the pace picking up as Robin bends over his acoustic guitar, strumming hard as the dense sound swells.With a voice that's made for melancholy - think Kelly Jones without the brittleness - Robin soothes as much as he enthuses. Gently harmonising with Joe on Dead, his rough notes add weight to his brother's unfeasibly high, choirboy voice.

As he hints at a wisdom beyond his years in the despondent beauty of I Let You Down, Goldrush, like Coldplay and Travis before them, prove substance can sometimes win over style.