Hes even gone on to draw a bizarre parallel between his three albums and the Ridley Scott triptych of Blade Runner, Alien and Prometheus they have so much in common, yet I dont feel a second of boredom.

Double Down is built from the same basic components as its predecessors chunky guitar riffs, rickety drum machines and scuttling basslines but hes found a way to shuffle those components around into fresh arrangements some good, some decidedly less good.

Anyone in possession of a TV set is likely to have come across the crisp riffing of Radar Detector, Constellations or Deep Sea Diver off the first album at some point in the last five years, unwittingly or otherwise.

Nothing on Double Down is likely to generate similarly substantial PRS cheques.

Lead single and first track Last Cigarette has all the elements in place clean-sounding guitar tones, a brisk tempo and a simple lyrical conceit which compares quitting smoking to romantic procrastination but the chorus underwhelms.

Meanwhile, Rated Rs tedious film certificate analogy would be more tolerable if it werent allied to a hulking, inelegant melody.

The comparatively gentle pop-soul number The Mess She Made is blessed with a vocal melody redolent of Prefab Sprout; Bag Of Tricks is a pop-soul number that proves especially welcome when coming straight after Rated R; Melange Mining Co and The Other Side hit that sweet spot where euphoria and melancholia meet, while Kill Your Attitude has a lovely, unexpected chord change in the chorus thats reminiscent of Squeeze at their peak.

Its lowlights are truly grating, but fortunately theyre outnumbered narrowly by some very palpable hits.

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