For a relatively new band, Goldheart Assembly make a remarkable accomplished sound that has seen them hailed in The Guardian as the British Fleet Foxes. They aren’t, they’re the new Hollies, but more of that later. With the kind of praise being heaped upon them by Steve Lamaq and Paul Lester, major labels are bound to come sniffing and if they get hold of them, they’ll polish away all the rough edges and we’ll be left with another band who have been over-produced into oblivion. Remember The House of Love? Best to hide them away then, away from the clutching grasp of the majors and where better to do that than at the Forncett Industrial Steam museum in Norfolk where, curiously they have recorded a large chunk of their debut album, Wolves & Thieves.

Back to the whole Fleet Foxes, do they, don’t they debate. Well, no, they really don’t – if you are desperate for a reference point, you really can’t do better than the Hollies. In fact, without the album ever sounding derivative, there’s something naggingly familiar about the whole album. The songs are so immediately catchy and the strike-rate so high that it feels like a greatest hits collection – not bad work for a group who have been together just a shade over two years. They’re also, according to this evidence, the best dressed band since 1967.

Goldheart Assembly tear themselves away from the steam engines just long enough to play a series of dates. Meanwhile their MySpace, showing their sartorial excellence in full effect, is here.

Mon 29 March Moles Club – Bath
Tue 30 March – New Hero – Brighton
Wed 31 March – Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) – London
Thu 20 May – The Bumper – Liverpool
Fri 21 May – Westgarth Social Club – Middlesbrough
Sat 22 May – The Cluny – Newcastle upon Tyne
Sun 23 May – Nation Of Shopkeepers – Leeds
Tue 25 May – King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut – Glasgow
Wed 26 May  -The Deaf Institute – Manchester
Thu 27 May – The Glee Club – Birmingham
Fri 28 May – Kings College London – London