Twee indie-pop normally raises my hackles, especially when it comes along with a fey attitude and irritatingly catchy tunes. Belle & Sebastian spring immediately to mind.

This song by Camera Obscura, also from Glasgow, has stuck in my head but there’s something else behind its sense of naive innocence that saves it from tweeness.

I think it’s mainly the wordplay that Tracyanne Campbell uses to describe her doomed romance with a French officer she met “by the moon on a silvery lake.”

I’m still wondering what that French Navy ship was doing on a lake at night – no wonder they lost the Battle of Trafalgar.

I love the suggestion in the opening lines – “Spent a week in a dusty library / Waiting for some words to jump out at me” – that the entire song is Tracy’s made-up fantasy, rather than trying to convince us it’s true.

And of course I love the couplet that goes: “You with your dietary restriction / Said you loved me with a lot of conviction.” Plus there’s a lovely low-budget video shot in Paris.

It’s taken from Camera Obscura’s fourth album My Maudlin Career, released in 2009, and there’s a lovely atmospheric remix by Jim Noir: