Here’s a deliciously jaded release from The Unknown Island that marries up worried, existentially occupied lyrics with a tired, seen-it-all (and artificial?) brass riff, the result being a world-weary and likeable single.

Despite the opening salvo – ‘Do you still believe in God? / Seldom believe in myself these days’ – it never gets too bogged down in introspection, managing a tone of endearing self-assessment for most of the track. On one or two occasions, it might feel a little like some lyrical padding has gone on to get through to the next bar – ‘There are words that I use / There are words I do not’ – but it’s a price that feels worth paying, so attractively down at heel is the song as a whole.

Whether canned or not, the horns are beautiful. They sigh woozily, like an old hand knowing the last chance has gone but persisting anyway. It’s a touchingly weathered coating to the tale (think a slightly refined version of the intro to The Enemy’s ‘We’ll Live and Die In These Towns’). As the sweet and hopeful closing seconds round things out on a surprisingly uplifting note, the aftertaste is a satisfying one. In a year that’s been saturated to the hilt with the traditional ‘Olympian’, take this opportunity to acquaint yourself with a different sort all together – he’s much more like the rest of us.