The delightful three piece slackers from Australia, The Goon Sax, saunter into the Hare and Hounds this June with their fragrant brand of sweetly profound indie pop. If you can make out the faint whiff of those earlier indie legends from down under, the Go-Betweens, that may be because front man Louis Forster is the son of Go-Betweens founder Robert. That’s not to suggest The Goon Sax are in anyway derivative, the endearingly astute band manage to meld brisk jangly melodies with a sharp as an axe lyrical vision. A bit like burying a live hand grenade in a pink frosted cup cake. Last years debut album ‘Up To Anything’ is a wonderful dip into the trenchant realism of the band’s eccentric universe and was released to universal acclaim, 12 tracks of DIY serenity that possess a fiercely naturalistic charm. Finally someone has tackled the unspeakable terror of going to the hairdressers, ‘Home Haircuts’ is a classic of 21st Century existential pain. Support comes from Quinn and local tearaways the Bank Accounts.

Mon 5 Jun 7.30pm at Hare and Hounds, High Street, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7JZ £8 skiddletickets.com