Transplant Terry Callier or Curtis Mayfield down under and you just might get a Jimmy Little. He’s got a voice that’s more Stax soul than outback. Pair that with a lyric sheet that’s in equal parts pleasure and politics and you’ve got quite a cocktail.

Title aside, this is an album that’s quietly confident, with not a trace of a need to prove itself. Which is just what’s required in an era of artistic ego-tripping and lowest common denominatorism.

Little’s church is broad but quintessentially Australian. The Go-Betweens, The Church, Paul Kelly, Nick Cave and Crowded House play a role in his set list. ‘Randwick Bells’ is barely recognisable as the paean to the joys of weekend sex that Paul Kelly recorded nearly two decades ago.