Roddy Frame was only 16 when he formed the legendary Aztec Camera, prompting suggestions that he might be Scotland's answer to American prodigy Jackson Browne.
Now, 23 years later, the comparison still holds.
Frame's third solo album, Western Skies, is full of beautifully crafted songs, shimmering imagery, understated, beguiling guitar and, just now and again, the perfect pop single.
Rather like Browne's finest work, in fact.
Western Skies finds Frame in a reflective, introspective Browne mood, some distance away from the immediacy of Somewhere In My Heart and the rousing Good Morning Britain, and the first couple of plays may wash gently over you.
But then the album begins to grip.
The title track, co-written with Radio One's Rob da Bank, sets the pastoral scene perfectly, while Tell The Truth, Rock God and Day Of Reckoning are timely reminders of Frame's gentle genius.
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