IS Log Cabin Musing the new Britpop? You can’t move, musically speaking, at the moment for rustic pluckers using campfire imagery to tell their homespun tales from the backwoods.

Bon Iver may be to blame, but in fairness, Samuel Beam, aka Iron And Wine, has been doing this for more than a decade. However, he has upped his instrumental game for Ghost On Ghost, with strings, horns and organs added to his basic guitar sound, which gives the album a more wholesome and relaxed feel. But at the same time, this fleshed-out approach seems to have robbed Beam of some of his edge.

While Ghost On Ghost has echoes of the likes of Calexico and early Elton John in places, it also has echoes of Jack Johnson’s bland, off-the-shelf country. Singers And The Endless Song and closing track Baby Center Stage are the highlights, but the likes of Joy are whimsical and inconsequential, and Beam’s quest for adventure seems to have left him stuck between floors.