It seems extremely apposite watching the pink blossom falling from trees whilst listening to the new album from Glasgow/London duo Sacred Paws: this album’s songs are all about transition, from the end of relationships, to the start of new life changes. So it feels apt that it’s getting an early spring release.

This is not a wild jump into the unknown, more a measured, tentative one, before finding a safe place to land. All of Sacred Paws’ winning ingredients are in place: Ray Aggs’ glorious Afrobeat guitar playing, their sweet harmonies and Eilidh Rodgers’ polyrhythmic drumming. But there’s an added poignancy here too, as evinced by the strings on gorgeous opening track ‘Save Something’. This is clearly a more personal record, with more direct lyrics than before.

The addition of banjo, keys and brass brings yet more shimmering layers to the sound. It’s not without its ebullient moments: ‘Turn Me Down’, ‘Through The Dark’ and ‘Jump Into Life’ have that irresistible bounce and euphoria that first marked the band as unique – but the melancholic undercurrent of ‘Slowly Slowly’ and ‘Simple Feeling’ seeps through the sound, like the chills that accompany the first sunny days of April. It’s nice to hear such a marked contrast in their sound, a cautiously optimistic record with a lot of depth, “a little bit older and wiser”,  in the band’s own words.