For people who like David Gray but find him a bit abrasive there’s Christopher Mack’s James Orr Complex, a Glasgow-weaned, South America-based project.

The 2003 debut, Chori’s Bundle, charmed audiences like a Hugh Grant movie, only moodier - soft, unfailingly polite, very sappy.

On Com Favo, Mack again delves into pretty folk pop, though he comes up with a couple of solid cuts in the Amos-minus-the-annoying ‘Inking The Orbit’ and ‘Save or Serve’, which possesses Mack’s beautiful voice that bleeds sincerity at haemophiliac levels. Mack has an undeniable gift for melody, but how you feel about his music will probably depend on whether you find lyrics such as “You don’t want to join an angry mob, you just don’t want to get a better job” inspirational or just irritating.

Com Favo is full of delicacy and chaos, and it goes for heart-wrenching grandeur without ever giving in to despair. As the Shangri-Las used to say, this is good bad, not evil.

Chris Purnell