Although Jacobites wore their influences on their crushed velvet sleeves, they still sounded unique. The scarf-wearing partnership of ex-Swell Maps main man Nikki Sudden and Brummie maverick Dave Kusworth (with previous alongside Stephen Duffy in the Subterranean Hawks) specialised in a ragged, instantly identifiable acoustic-led jangle that affectionately tipped the wink to Dylan, Bolan, the Faces and the Stones. After a tentative start and some elegantly wasted, ramshackle shows they transformed into dandy songsmiths, with lost love, dashed hope and endless yearning their favoured crutch (hitting its apex on the previous year’s Robespierre’s Velvet Basement, whose muffled production failed to dull its clutch of pearls). With its bluesy harmonica and driving three-chord riff, Sudden’s ‘When The Rain Comes’ made for an obvious A-side, about as straight-ahead as they got. One of five extra tracks on the 12-inch, Kusworth’s ‘Country Girl’ was a gorgeous counterpoint. Over a hearty strum of acoustics and painterly drums (an overactive bass is buried, happily, low in the mix), Kusworth sketches an idyllic pastoral scene, his foreign quarry cutting corn in a field, hair blowing in the wind. As his affections mount the song shifts keys, building and building to a climax as its author romanticises about “taking the world together”, forgoing city life once and for all. Packed with tenderness, hearts quivering, it’s the distilled essence of their wonderful union.