“I am what they call a relatively high-strung person,” says Jack Jones, in this pacy memoir by the frontman of Welsh indie group Trampolene. Written to complement their album of the same name, it’s excellent reading which took years to reach the light of day.

Swansea To Hornsey shares his music’s features of poeticism, finding arcane romance in everyday humdrum circumstances. A playlist which grows with each new chapter is an intimate detail, revealing his broad inspirations yet also which songs he was finding sympathy within during troubled times. Despite a relaxed tone, it cleverly averts droll rock-biography tropes with great emotion, including a claim of being “wounded like a koala bear” by a disappointing Radiohead video.

The book is best when capturing his formative years – from the heights of “dazzling disorder” at School Prom to putting potential suitors “in despair” over his wooing hopelessness, Jones recounts his blossoming relationships with touching hilarity. What is particularly moving is his heartrending dedication to his mother, putting up with his “endless war against boredom” and playground scraps. Fans of his now-regular bandmate Peter Doherty will find plenty to enjoy – this tome is intriguingly the start of the fellow rabblerouser’s new publishing company.