I learned of The National Living Treasures on the latest email from musical distributors par excellence, Vitamin. Their second album, Wide Music, escaped my attention, as had their first, but no longer: heck, these boys are good!

Go, listen to some luvverly track samples on their MySpace page including ‘Living Man’ which I would rank as highly as anything from Icecream Hands or Rheostatics, with some Apples in Stereo in the mix and perhaps even a soupçon of Brian Wilson and Todd Rundgren.

I kid you not when I say that you will enjoy it immensely. The plastic album is available directly through Vitamin but I can’t find it available on the interweb in digital format yet. An earlier EP is up on iTunes in the meantime.

If you’re lucky enough to be in Melbourne for Easter, you can catch their album launch at the Toff in Town on 24 March.