As a hot summer meanders along, this record will be sure to stay in the stereo.

From the swaggering bass of the early bars of the first verse, it is obvious to the listener that this is a single aimed squarely at the dancefloor.

Oklahoma, Obviously Cold and closing track You Should Have Called’s jangly hooks offer that kind of all-encompassing, reverb-treated sound that makes you want to stand on a table and play an invisible axe all of your own, throwing caution to the wind.

On this evidence, It Hugs Back don’t quite grab you with both arms just yet. But a warm embrace isn’t a bad start for now.

Proclaimed Best New Festival of 2008 by the festival equivalent of the Oscars last year, it’s been an auspicious start for the Dorset based gathering – which it fully deserves.