This inoffensive offering from indie pop quintet The Thrills features plenty of pretty, toe-tapping tunes that will play nicely over the airwaves but could leave more demanding indie fans stifling the odd yawn.

The fact that this is a more electric guitar-driven album than their debut ‘So Much For The City’ shows that the band is bowing more to their pop influences than to their folksy roots, where banjo and acoustic guitar featured prominently and the first album was more carefully honed.

Produced by Dave Sardy (Johnny Cash), and featuring guest appearances by REM's Peter Buck and the legendary Van Dyke Park, ‘Let’s Bottle Bohemia’ was written while the band were touring, in an attempt to capture the spontaneity of their initial success.

So says frontman Conor Deasy: “It’s a more ambiguous record. It’s the sound of a band coming into its own, finding its feet, and being as unselfconscious as possible.”

As a result, it takes a loyal Thrills fan to really appreciate it, though unselfconscious indie fans and first year varsity students will more than likely take to it as well.

The album opens with ‘Tell Me Something I Don’t Know’, a breezy pop track with spatterings of creative guitar play. More funky, seventies guitar riffs chug away in the background of some soaring violins on ‘Whatever Happened to Corey Haim?’, but by the third track (‘Faded Beauty Queens’), the formula has become a little too predictable, despite a vague effort to add interest in the form of a trilling banjo.

‘Saturday Night’ is catchy, sophomore indie pop at it’s best, as is ‘Found My Rosebud’.

But it is only on the beautiful haunting ‘Not for All the Love in the World’ where the band edge closer to showing true lyrical and musical depth, though the song reminded me more of Mercury Rev than anything else, without the dark complexity of the Revs. Still, it's an admirable rebellion to the sophomore syndrome that characterises the rest of the album.

While more demanding lovers of indie may feel a little cheated by ‘Let’s Bottle Bohemia’, the album is on the whole a pretty one, with decent lashings of lyrical humour, and the odd musical highlight that makes for uncomplicated indie pop perfect to play to a small gathering of friends, or as a backdrop to your spring cleaning.