A Nottingham four-piece under the wing of producer Chris Potter (The Verve’s Urban Hymns and some of Richard Ashcroft’s solo efforts), Story One are attracting a degree of buzz, even to the extent of contributing a large part of the backing to a recent David Beckham documentary.

Singer Tom Evans also plays violin and this is a pointer to the core of the band’s big sound, amply bolstered with lots of piano, feedback and sweeping crescendos, between quiet spaces where Evans’s vocals try to redefine ‘epic’ and ‘heartfelt’.

The problem lies in the interpretation. Story One have a clear love of the Americana of Wilco, Midlake and Grandaddy, even covering the latter’s ‘A.M.180’. And they absolutely massacre it. The song’s desperation is one of nostalgia, and this subtlety is lost on Story One. They appear to have drunk too deeply from the well of mainstream indie breast-beaters, and even Embrace seem delicate in comparison.

Richard Davie