The album blurb gives us the self-effacing measure of this Scots duo, neither of whom is called Victor Malloy: "Recorded in Russ's bedroom using one Minidisc mic, an Apple Mac computer and loads of instruments". The instruments include the definitive tools of tweeness - melodica, ukulele and banjo - and if you're thinking Belle and Sebastian had better be looking over their shoulders, you'd be right.

As twee goes, though, Russ Jones and Kenny McCracken's second album is as appealing as it gets. Care is taken over the minutely-observed lyrics (The Girl in the Hood even addresses the subject of blushing: "I think of you when no one's around/ I go so red when you go so brown"), and, unlike some of their whimsical ilk, they haven't forgotten to write proper tunes.

Admittedly, the tunes occasionally take second place to effects like the hollow-sounding percussive noise (produced by a tennis ball, apparently) on Tallyvan Army, and are entirely absent on the jokey 16 Strings, seemingly recorded at chucking-out time in a Glasgow pub. But in every way that counts, this is a little gem.