Hot on the heels of Andrew Morgan’s ‘Please Kid, Remember’ comes another contender for most autumnal record of the year. Play this outdoors and mists will descend and leaves will turn golden and fall like teardrops.

Essentially a folky collection of songs, the sound is given a richer texture through the use of sound washes and the St. Kitts String Quartet. Strings have been arranged by Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy who has previously written arrangements on both of the Arcade Fire albums as well as on Luxury Pond’s debut, ‘Through A Revolution’. His work here complements singer Dan Goldman’s plaintive vocals perfectly, adding strength and light to songs such as ‘Caving In’ and ‘Truest Nature’, which from hushed beginnings swells to sounding positively cacophonous in comparison to the rest of the album.

Similarly, the vocals provided by Daniela Gesundheit (from Snowblink) add an element of ether to the outstanding ‘The Bones’ and ‘Clay’.

Recorded in a single day, perfectionists might gripe at the occasional cracks in Goldman’s vocals but such glitches add something to the mix. All too often, records like this can sound over produced and sterile. ‘I went into the process willing to trade the idea of perfection for a feeling of honesty,’ he explains. Mission accomplished then.

Goldman describes his lyrics as having a skewed perspective and across the album plays with ideas about prehistoric sharks, Moses and making portraits from clay, though it isn’t clear whether or not this is a response to Lionel Richie’s video for ‘Hello’.

‘Luxury Pond’ is available to download here for eight Canadian Dollars and eighty eight cents. That’s a mere five quid to those of us this side of the Atlantic.

Or you can have a listen first here.