BASKERY sing of Atlantic City, Milwaukee and drowning in a one-horse town; their musical weapons of choice are the six-stringed banjo, slap bass, slide guitar and stomping kick drum; and they are smeared in the soil of old country, hillbilly blues and The Carter Family.

They harmonise instinctively like only three sisters can and sing the American roots way a la Dixie Chicks and The Be Good Tanyas. Yet Greta, Stella and Sunniva Bondesson are from Stockholm with the foxy looks to launch a thousand Swedish stereotype fantasies. Oh behave.

Glitterhouse Records take their unlikely but wonderfully wry mountain music far more seriously than that, sending Baskery out on Seth Lakeman’s tour last year, fixing up gigs this week at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow, giving them an unsmiling, black-and-white album sleeve and teaming them up with fellow Scandinavians Peter Bjorn & John and Lykke Li’s producer, Lasse Marten, to buttress their sassy indie spirit. Combine their lovely Swedish way with a melody and a lively way with American tradition and Baskery are gorgeous in every way.