Scottish super duo Smash Williams make their debut with "A Splash of Colour"

Despite the duo’s impressive pedigree (and the months that went into its creation), however, this first single sounds charmingly off-the-cuff. The sound of gentle, echo-laden guitars dripping over a makeshift programmed drumbeat are the perfect backdrop for a genuinely tender tale of love at first sight.

If they keep this up, Smash Williams can’t lose. Texas Forever.

Stuart Dougan: "I used to play in a band called French Wives who disbanded at the end of 2013, Gordon [Skene] used to play in Frightened Rabbit but left at the start of 2014. We started working together around a year ago and 'A Splash Of Colour' was the first thing we worked on, and I feel it's the most representative of what is to come from Smash Williams. We worked on it for several months and in several guises before landing on where it is now. It's essentially a song about the highlight of an otherwise mundane working day, a fleeting moment of pleasure to cling to before being snapped back into the drudgery of reality."