Like entirely too many CDs these days, Peloton has been available in the UK for more than a year. Don't let Beggars Banquet's reticence put you off, though -- Peloton is worth the wait. It's a gently beautiful guitar pop concoction, adorned with strings, flutes, piano and Emma Pollock's lighter than air vocals. At the center, of course, are the guitars, their melodies alternately piercing and lulling, squalling and sedate, but invariably full of rich sonic textures. The Delgados' ear for pastoral beauty isn't particularly surprising, however -- as the owners of Chemikal Underground records (home of Arab Strap, Magoo and of course Mogwai), they've set a pretty high standard for their own music. That standard is readily met by songs like the gently insistent "Don't Stop", the densely downbeat "Pull the Wires from the Wall" and the lead-off single "Everything goes around the water", each of which radiates sheer pop gorgeousness as if it was readily available for a few pennies at the corner shop. Peloton is a perfect album to buy as the weather gets warm and you grow eager for summer, but beware -- these melodies will entice you into hours of blissful, grass-blade-counting inaction.