The previous release by Teddy was his collection of country standards, Up Front and Down Low, before which was his debut, Separate Ways.

Both those records offered his natural plaintive take on sorrow and were minimally dressed up – acoustic guitar to the fore, the odd bit of strings, but otherwise unembellished. This is different, and that is almost entirely down to the production of Marius de Vries, he who has cast magic spells over albums by Neil Finn and Rufus Wainwright.

Despite this being more electric and with more sonic imagination that anything he has done before, Thompson’s splendid songwriting and his lovely voice (part his father Richard, part Rufus) are unimpeded, in fact if anything they are magnified. By no means an artist who has reached his peak (the occasional forced melody or clunky lyric gets in the way), but with songs like ‘The Things I Do’ and the possessed title track, it cannot be denied Thompson is a special sort of talent.