With songs about middle-aged divorcees at 1980s revival discos (“Mirrorball”, a trumpetembellished Nancy & Lee tribute performed by The Go-Betweens) and suicidal leave-voting patriots in Robin Reliants (“Three Wheeled Car”), Birling Gap represents a sincere, empathetic attempt to embrace and dissect Englishness and middle age. C86 linchpins Amelia Fletcher and Rod Pursey’s methodology is more polished now but their articulate sincerity and melodicism stay true to their roots: “Always On My Mind” is Mamas & The Papas jangling with a sugar rush and “Like The Rain”, in contrast, is suffused with regret.