Romford is not, by any reasonable geographical measure, Nashville. And yet here comes Justin Vella, the self-styled Cockney Cowboy, striding out of a London council estate in a Stetson, determined to prove that heartbreak, nostalgia and a decent pedal steel line know no postcode. "Waterloo Road" is his calling card, and it is, against all sensible expectation, rather good fun.

Justin Kleiner has built himself a world, and on "New Misty Morning" he finally lets you through the gate. Awaywhere has always sounded like a place glimpsed rather than a project announced, and this single is the first properly furnished room in it: bright, humid, faintly unreal, the kind of morning you only get in dreams or in the opening credits of a film nobody remembers the plot of.

Pop music likes to pretend it doesn't have opinions. It dresses its arguments up in synth washes and four-on-the-floor kicks until the message slides past unnoticed, a spoonful of sugar for whatever the songwriter actually wants to say. Hans Petter Stormoen doesn't bother with the disguise. "Is It So Hard To Be Good" wears its thesis on its sleeve and dares you to skip past it, which is either a bold move or a foolish one, and happily it turns out to be the former.