"It's difficult to know what they've been listening to" said John Peel playing Ralfe Band on his show in 2004, but if you imagine the gifted offspring of The Beta Band (circa The Three Eps), The Kinks, Will Oldham and Yann Tiersen the picture should be coming into focus. "I'm inspired by a real mismash of stuff" explains Oly Ralfe, "Dylan...Tom Waits...early Beck...eastern European folk, film music...Captain Beefheart, Eric Satie, ...painting..."