Maybe that's a nice way of saying mature, thoughtful and expansive pop, because that is what the Australian three-piece (singer/guitarist Brendan Gallagher, bassist Michael Galeazzi and drummer Stuart Eadie) specialise in.

Over more than a decade and five albums, Karma County have been crafting lush cuts of acoustic Australiana - calm, crisp, campfire ballads - that pre-dated the country's growing roots movement.

The best of the band's career output is brought together on a new 36-track, two-disc collection called Headland, to be released next month.

Featuring new tracks, previously unreleased songs, live recordings and a cover of Yazoo's Only You, Headland is a comprehensive look at a consistent if a-little-too-comfortable MOR outfit.

The band does include other elements in its laid-back palette, with lap steels, piano, organ, strings and tenor sax adding to their signature sound.

Highlights are Dexter And Sinistra, a suburban love story delivered in spoken word by actor Bryan Brown, with a beatbox back beat and swaying, lilting violin.

Secret Country, perhaps the group's best-known song, featuring Jimmy Little on backing vocals, sounds as fresh as it did in 1999.

The Men Who Ran Away From The Circus takes a funky twang of the lap steel and turns into a bar-room hoedown.

There is little on the main disc that will disappoint if you like your pop acoustic, languid and timeless, with world wearyness and wide-eyed romance in equal measure.