“My wife had a lot of health problems and we’ve got two kids so that put music into perspective,” mainman Mark Cullen explains. “It had to take a backseat for a while.”

Along with Pony Club and his former outfits Bawl and Fixed Stars, Cullen has also collaborated in the past with fellow bittersweet popster Ian Broudie, and has a definite whiff of the unsung heroes about him.

The album will hit stores on November 14.