‘After the Rain, Strange Seeds’, The Leaf Library’s fourth album, explores themes of memory and place through an abstract point of view – welcoming you to marvel at how strange and special the natural world can be.

‘Colour Chant’ starts the album in suitably atmospheric fashion, all tribal-tinged guitar and rhythmic vocals about scattering over the field. Chiming guitar comes in towards the end, indicating a look forward with hope. This is followed by ‘Still & Moving’, a potent piece of pop music that brings to mind both Teenage Fanclub and Admiral Fallow. Recent single ‘The Reader’s Lamp’ is a jangly yet melancholic piece with thought about how you can ‘fall backwards’ before ‘Sun in My Room’ takes the record in a more psychedelic direction, blending talk of ‘underwater memories’ with subtle experimentalism.

‘Carry a River in Your Mouth’ has a folkier start with the deliberately sparse instrumentation giving the vocals extra impact: ‘Slip away in the shallows you’re breathing’. ‘Catch Up, Isobel’ returns to the charming C86 speed with a swift slickness before things take an orchestral turn on ‘A Ship in the Sky’. Penultimate song ‘Some Circling’ is a 9-minute beast that veers into post rock territory – all precision drumming, swirling stop-start guitar and all kinds of other instruments thrown in the mix.

As ‘There Was Always a Golden Age’ closes the album with stirring strings, you’ll be left with a glowing, fuzzy feeling.