It’s probably no accident that ‘Driver’s Side’, the second track from Table Talk’s newest EP ‘Where I Am Without You’, sounds like a great Weakerthans song.Delving into the intricacies of every small thing you do or enjoy – in this case smoking cigarettes after work – being picked apart by someone you love, Table Talk manage to rediscover a brand of mature, laid back pop.

Dare I even say the kind of mature, laid back pop that led to the mid-90’s mainstream explosion of bands like The Get Up Kids and Saves The Day.With an enormously catchy chorus and some delicate, brilliant songcraft, it serves to fill the more pop orientated, less twinkly and emotionally fraught shaped hole that definitely exists within the pop-punk/emo genres right now.

(Side note: this track might, just might, make Motion City Soundtrack’s breakup feel okay for a while. Let’s hope whatever comes next is just as good.)