With its truncated lines of verse and insistent strum like the idling of an engine, ‘So Long’ is a song about a short farewell made long, but at just shy of three minutes not that long. Jonah’s voice has a wide-eyed innocent sound coupled with an untutored clarity, emphasised by the ‘natural’ small room effect on the vocals. Behind all this, a slide guitar wails soulfully and a basic rhythm keeps the beat on the drums. Very simple, very clean, like a young James Yorkston or Richard Hawley, but with an element of authentic pop similar to John Denver or Glen Campbell – more so than Richard anyway. If any criticism could be levelled at it, it would be that it is too erudite, too obvious. But, as I said, he’s been doing this for a while; honing down to the bones of a subject must be second nature to him. Short, blunt but pointedly familiar.