Winspear has a real knack for finding artists with heart and warmth, and Swapmeet from Adelaide are a perfect fit for the label. Mount Zero is a deeply charming debut that’s fun, friendly and feels like the nostalgic memories of a summer road trip with the windows down.

Great little songs that are more than enough, Venus O’Broin has an exceptionally sweet voice, and the male-female pairing that runs through the record gives it a communal, easy quality, as if you’re listening to a group that are friends first and a band second. The band jam rather than desperately trying to nail every note with studio perfection, which is exactly what great indie music should sound like. I Know! opens the album with a cute, bouncy single followed by supremely lazy slacker rock on Mount Zero that’s gentle and unhurried. Seeds is a standout with quiet and tender verses that strongly recall Pavement giving way to a big, crushing, fuzzy, riffy chorus, and the closer My Heart Breaks II is twice the length of everything around it at six minutes, serving as the album’s most expansive moment. Summer road trip music that sounds like a warm afternoon, the melodies are effortlessly catchy and the performances are both warm and slightly rough around the edges. A lovely debut from a band with a lot more to give, Mount Zero sounds like the great American slacker rock of the nineties, where self-production, prolific output and a certain insular quality were crucial, putting out songs without too much care what the critics say because the music was always slightly too noisy and personal to be aiming for mass appeal. There’s no reason Swapmeet couldn’t go very far, with lovely songs and accessible melodies, but they’re also not trying to wow or impress anyone, and that’s precisely what gives Mount Zero its charm.