As lazy as it sounds, it is hard not to compare Aberystwyth’s Race Horses with fellow Welsh eccentrics Super Furry Animals. Like the Furries’ earliest works, Goodbye Falkenburg presents the listener with an almost intangible melting pot of influences, tracks such as lead single ‘Cake’ evoking 60s garage and psychedelia as it ponders on the joys of girls and home baking. However, such idiosyncrasies mean Race Horses find themselves running risk of self-indulgence towards the final furlong; faux-naval ditty ‘Captain Penelope Smith’ certainly succeeds in inducing seasickness. But there is still much to be content with on Goodbye Falkenburg. Maybe it’s guitar distortion that recreates the moment Ray Davies first took a razorblade to his amplifier speakers or the unashamed abundance of electric organs and studio-reversed pianos. Either way, there’s enough promise on here to suggest Race Horses may one day gallop alongside the Furries.

Jon Bauckham