A Scottish band playing a sold-out Academy on a Friday night is basically a slam dunk - particularly when that band's oeuvre is packed with arm-around-the-shoulder, pint-in-the-air singalong-friendly anthems.

Edinburgh's Vistas take to the stage for the first date of their tour in support of their third album, having already scored two top-40 releases.

If the old place isn't sold out then it's damn close, and there's a healthy balance of male and female, young and old, as the band take to the stage and get down to business.

Opener 'Cruel Hearts' from new album Is This All We Are? is accompanied by streamers and the first - but by no means last - clap-along of the night.

It's followed by 'Tigerblood' from Vistas' debut Everything Changes in the End, the first signal for the well-lubricated Friday night crowd to pogo and clamber atop shoulders, and the title track from that same album as sweat begins to rise from the Academy crowd.

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There's not much in the way of crowd interaction, Prentice Robertson saying demurely, "we're going to play a couple of new ones for you Glasgow, alright?".

It's undeniable that the Edinburgh outfit have a way with a hook - you're never far away from a "woah" an "oh" or a "hey" - and it's easy to see why the enthusiastic - and well-lubricated - crowd has gathered .

Vistas' indie-riffing and singalong choruses call to mind the likes of Two Door Cinema Club and The Vaccines, but as the set goes on a lack of variety starts to tell.

With every song going for 'big' there's an issue with pacing, and by the time we get to 'The Beautiful Nothing' from this year's EP of the same name there's some appreciable shuffling of feet from the back of the room.

To their credit Vistas flip the script with a rip-roaring 'Sentimental', far heavier and more jagged than on record, while 'Calm' - "woah-ohs" in tow - sparks an almighty bounce down the front.

After an energetic 'Stranger', Robertson tells the crowd "we're not going to do that thing where we pretend to go off and milk the applause" so it's straight into closer 'Retrospect' and once again drinks are in the air and friends are on shoulders.

The eschewing of an encore is a neat summation of a show which has few frills and fewer tonal shifts.

It's energetic, occasionally raucous but never transcendental and it's hard not to think some lower tempo moments would make the highs even higher.

There's no doubt Vistas are readymade to smash an early evening festival set - they'd be sure to go down a storm on the TRNSMT main stage - but in this expanded format an overabundance of anthems means the set never soars as it might.