Having taken their name from a line in ‘Hooray For Hollywood’ – inspired by the song’s jarring use in Robert Altman’s Philip Marlowe detective movie The Long Goodbye – there is an aptly cinematic quality to Any Young Mechanic’s music.

With intricate scenes, enthralling narratives and unique characters cropping up across the lyrics, and a kaleidoscopic yet coherently interwoven spectrum of moods and emotions stretching through the music, the Adelaide five-piece bring a fresh language to folk music’s natural propensity to spin a good yarn.

Though all five studied at Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium, it was the intimate, interconnected nature of the DIY music scene in Australia’s fifth city that helped to shape the band. At the same time, an organic influence from South London also proved as useful as instruction on crotchets and minims, song structures and production.

So rather than offering borrowed references illuminated by the cosy flickers of campfire flames, on their debut album The Modern Shoe Is Ruining The Foot, the Australian band’s urgent songs conjure up vivid, widescreen vistas that blend the genre’s enduring charms with a musical dexterity and sharp vision reaching beyond folk’s usual corners. The finished body of work – produced by the band and local engineer Sam Lench – possesses the undeniable coherency of a true album, its musical interconnectivity striking against a digital sea of scattergun playlists.

A mesh of criss-crossing folkish paths, melodic alleys and lyrical highways, while the record possesses an immediacy that quickly turns its 12 tracks into lifelong friends, no two listens ever seem quite the same. With each spin, fresh turns of phrase and musical passages suddenly command attention, as both the sweeping horizons and intricate gullies of Any Young Mechanic’s musical landscapes unfold.