(Fiction) ***

RUSH-released à la Arctic Monkeys, La Nash appears to have brought the summer sun out with her easy, breezy mix of smiley pop and kitchen sink lyricism.

It's good, very good in places and painfully hard to dislike, but - and I'm sorry to disappoint - this isn't the record that secures the future of pop music.

Super-twee chart-topping single Foundations is where most folk came in and it still sounds really pretty, if a little knowing.

Put it this way, you wouldn't get out of your chair to turn it off the radio. It's in good company here - Mouthwash, Birds and Pumpkin Soup all have that funky, flip appeal.

Much better though is the fairy tale darkness of Mariella, the girl genius who glues her lips together so she doesn't have to speak.