Several of these tunes have a sort of quiet majesty, not dissimilar to Jeff Buckley. However, that air of fuzzy-headedness seems to prevent any of it truly tugging at your heart. That guitar playing is an absolute delight throughout, though. By Chris Ball

There may be a few album openers from 2011 that are better than ‘About as Helpful as You Can Be Without Actually Being Any Help at All’, the wonderfully-titled first song on Dan Mangan’s latest album, ‘Oh Fortune’, but I doubt very much if they are any …