It's a point not lost on Chesterfield /Sheffield outfit Pocket Satellite — whose debut album, Disappearing Stars, serves up 11 tracks of affecting acoustic folk-pop focused on the softly-beguiling harmonies of Maya Zosmer and Carl Haag.

Like childhood photographs, they draw you in with their warm charm and innocence — but, as with growing up itself, there's often a deeper and darker side.

The songs are deceptively simple, based around familiar, uncluttered guitars and sparse bass parts.

This leaves space for the two vocals to spar and twine into something of quiet beauty, somehow managing to convey far more than they actually say.

Like a Graham Greene novel, you never catch the action itself - it all occurs off the page, between the words.

Pocket Satellite clearly know their strengths and the direction they want to go in. There's no real change of pace or style among this half-dozen of songs, yet they all have subtle shades of tone.

Ocean has an almost Celtic feel to it, recalling Roddy Woomble's recent solo efforts, while there's a hint of flamenco in the strummed guitars of Some New Song.

But it's the the quality of the two voices that really sets Pocket Satellite apart, creating songs to fall in love with — and to.

PHILFY PHIL

• Copies of the album can be bought via www.pocketsatellite.co.uk


• On-line buyers will also get a bonus CD featuring covers of The Prayer by Bloc party and Hot Chip's Ready For The Floor.

You can catch the band live at the Hilltop Oxjam at Belper's Hill Top Inn on Saturday, Auugsut 9 and The Plug, Sheff, on September 6.