Rachel Goswell was a bandmate of Neil Halstead’s in Slowdive and Mojave 3 before embarking on her own solo career with 2004’s Waves are Universal. Like Halstead, she he has managed to amply demonstrate that beneath the hazy dream-pop/shoegazing surface there always lay a beating folk-song heart.

No matter how many times I fail to find any evidence of it, a very small part of me remains convinced that one day I’ll find out that No Substitute is in fact a cover of a previously lost or forgotten country-folk classic: the vocal melody, the lyric, the beauty, as the late David Frost once said, “the clues are there”…