Vance Joy - Nation of Two

The Guardian 40

(Atlantic)

What would a piece of soft furnishing sound like if turned into a song? Or a Thomson Holidays brochure? Or an Instagram post in which blandly attractive people have non-specific good times in a blandly attractive bar? The Australian singer-songwriter Vance Joy supplies the answer on an album of songs about relationships written, seemingly, from the perspective of someone who has learned about them from watching the romcoms Matthew McConaughey was starring in during his dark ages.