Unbelievable Truth **** King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow

Kicking off with a rousing version of their recent single, Landslide, Unbelievable Truth set the tone for a triumphant evening, playing material from their new album sorrythankyou with aplomb. Brooding guitar, fierce beats and mournful organ, all complementing the enormous vocal talent of Andy Yorke - initiated an all too short airing for the band's musical palimpsest: layers of rich music and beautiful lyrics. This was an elegant, mesmerising cacophony.

As Yorke's Morrissey-tinted voice soared, so did the songs' subjects. From the search for happiness to love found and lost, Unbelievable Truth's take on these staple subjects of pop music made you feel you had never heard them addressed before. Delicate epics were built from nothing and faded to nothing again or else transformed themselves into the carnage of thrashing guitar, particularly in sorrythankyou.

Live, their intellectual melancholia is oddly uplifting: there is hope in their lyrics and the energy in their music seems to pulse from their hearts. No longer signed to Virgin, Unbelievable Truth are evidently enjoying the creative freedom they now have. In their element in front of an audience, any notion of the trio as cerebral cold fish is dispelled; as are comparisons with Yorke's older brother, Radiohead's Thom. Here is a great band with composed, wonderfully emotional music.

Unbelievable Truth play the Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth (02392 863911), tonight, then tour.

***** Unmissable **** Recommended *** Enjoyable ** Mediocre * Terrible