As bright and jangly as the Smiths and possessing the same wry sense of humor as the Lucksmiths, the Copenhagen outfit Northern Portrait prove it's possible to wear your influences on your sleeve and still have plenty of room there for your heart as well. Criminal Art Lovers is as euphoric as a first crush, its songs fantastically fey and instantly winning. Vocalist Stefan Larsen uses his baleful, wavering tenor to articulate rejection (the spectacularly melodramatic "The Operation Worked But the Patient Died") and infatuation ("Crazy," which skips along carefree as a grade schooler on a spring day). The stakes may be low — the only aim here is to write a batch of baleful, beautiful Britpop songs — but the efficiency with which they execute that task is astonishing. Closer "New Favourite Moment" goes down like a digestif: sweet and full and intoxicating. In it, Larsen sings hopefully, "Things are very different now — write it down: your new favourite moment." Fittingly, Criminal Art Lovers has 10 of them.