Pastoral folk picking, gentle country shuffles, Cajun jigs, and choral numbers – the songs on Ray Coen’s debut album skirt a few different genres in their quest for pop-folk perfection. All in all, Out Of Sight isn’t particularly ground breaking, but it is very well done. It’s beautifully recorded, and Coen’s gentle Nick Drakeish vocals confidently point the way as beautifully-judged string, guitar, brass and vocal arrangements happily follow. It is what it is: music that’s very happy in its own skin.

Key Track: ‘El Camino‘