On The Last Ghost Train Home, Perry Keyes' follow-up to 2005's acclaimed debut album Meter, Keyes confirms his status as one of Australia's finest singer-songwriters with a set of gloriously observed and constructed songs.

Keyes's scenes and rich gallery of characters are photograph-vivid and anointed with acutely-observed and brutally-honest detail that brings them roaring to life. His images and anecdotes, some poignant, others the stuff of nightmares, loom at you like sylphs and hellions from a ghost train gloom.

Once again, Keyes is backed by his band, Give My Love to Rose, featuring Edmond Kairouz on guitars and vocals, Earl Pinkerton on bass, and the extraordinarily talented Bek-Jean Stewart on drums and shimmering back-up vocals that tingle the spine.

Perry Keyes has been compared to Springsteen and Elvis Costello, influences he typically shies from but when pressed on certain days may not deny. On The Last Ghost Train Home he proves himself entirely his own man.

• The Day John Sattler Broke His Jaw
• Kids Day
• Double On The Main Game
• Sideshow Alley
• Peter Cottonball
• At The Speedway
• Matthew Talbot's Blanket
• In Ancient Rome
• Dale Buggins Dream
• Joe Strummer
• The Last Ghost Train Home