BACK Numbers is a tribute album of sorts, a slinky testament to the smouldering Sixties chemistry of Lee & Nancy, in which former Luna duo Dean Wareham and his wife Britta Phillips ape the baroque originals and curl sensuality into a handful of melodious, offbeat covers.

In their arch boy-girl duets, Wareham and Britta compete to sound the sleepier, their dusty voices as soft as a breeze on Singer Sing and Words You Used To Say, and throughout their come-to-bed allure is cocooned in the warmth of Tony Visconti's lush production and the psychedelic, drifting synths of Spaceman 3's Sonic Boom.

The covers are the ultimate joy, especially Donovan's obscure B-side Teen Angel and Hazlewood's You Turned My Head Around, a nod to their mentor and muse as cheeky and knowing as you could wish.

Sister Vanilla has melted the ice between Jim and William Reid to the point where the warring brothers are to reform The Jesus And Mary Chain for at least one concert.

Essentially, Little Pop Rock is a home-spun album of familiar JAMC melodies, warped guitars and drowsy drums, with hazy girl and boy vocals to match Dean & Britta and furnish the lazy lyrics of sometimes sweet, other times bitter sentiment.

The fresh ingredient, younger sister Linda Reid, is to the half-awake manner born, treading softly-softly on Pastel Blue and Slacker before turning cussed on What Goes Around, while Jamcolas and Delicat echo early and latter-day JAMC respectively.

Can't Stop The Rock and Down walk the tightrope of cliché and pastiche, but if the Reids can't pay tribute to themselves, who can?