There's a definite nostalgic quality to the music of each of the performers in Josh Pyke's Love Lies tour. Each of their songs – which are sometimes full of power and conviction; sometimes full of quiet, meditative remorse – seem to be a frame for an idea, a memory.

Jackson McLaren is a gifted musician. He has managed to create a cacophony of sound – drums, tambourines, guitars, violins – that swell around his poetic verses. Like Pyke and Gossling, his lyrics seem full of memories and nostalgia: “Remember sunny Christmas?/The kids are all grown up now, they can drive.” His lyrics mightn't have the full narrative quality of the musicians that followed him (they seemed to lack direction a bit), but they showed much promise.

Gossling is a performer who is extremely difficult not to like. Unlike so many of her contemporaries, she performs without pretension, seemingly without any idea of just how 'big' she is. Her opening number seems to contain an echo of Leonard Cohen – something in the power of her strong, clear piano lines, in the neatness of the restricted, careful presence of her rhythm section. She has a vibrant, enviable gift for putting narratives to music, as well as the uncommon habit of explaining the story behind songs.

This is Josh Pyke's first tour in a considerable amount of time, yet he is as gifted a musician as ever and even seems more vivacious and funny and positively at home on stage as ever. His totally fluid, flowing melodies take over from the moment the set opens, highlighted by Pyke's extraordinarily talented violinist, whose soaring notes help the songs flow from verse to verse like water. He chats candidly about The Hunger Games, gives a Bob Katter impersonation and tries to bring out a slight hum he's hearing in his microphone; his on-stage banter is quirky and a touch crazy, without being self-absorbed. The set is dominated by songs from Pyke's previous release, Chimney's Afire, as numbers like Parking Lots, Our House Breathing and The Summer are all trotted out.

This is a show in which the instrumentals are intricate, the vocals well-honed and the artists humble and funny. But even more remarkable is the lyricism; three gifted artists give us a guided tour of their memories, which give each of us the opportunity to reminisce. There's something special about shows with such a nostalgic feel… Like coming home.