The album’s cover shows a bright, pastoral field on a gorgeous day and in the middle of it stands a figure with his head in his hands, Ghostface looming behind him. The landscape is beautiful but there’s anxiety right at the centre of it, and that’s a perfect summary of what long time caller, first time listener is. Warm, beautifully played indie rock elevated by the most gorgeous Americana slide guitar, there are three guitars throughout but none of them create a wall of noise, instead weaving together in a gentle tapestry. It’s soft as far as rock goes and absolutely avoids the melodrama that has made certain strains of folk so easy to mock.

If you put this on in the background you might think of it as some nice indie folk, but when you actually listen closely and carefully you realise how frequently hilarious the lyrics are. Song titles like brat summer and ozempic (celebrity weight loss anxiety blues) have lyrics that are so culturally specific to this exact moment that they’ll probably be meaningless in five years, but this is a snapshot of right now delivered with a sharp satirical eye. Birkenstocks is a song about an insufferable pair of hipsters and it works simply by reeling off their characteristics. You know exactly who these people are from what they wear and how they present, and you already have strong feelings about them. new irish boyfriend opens with a line about an ex hard launching a new love interest who’s cousin is in Kneecap, and it’s killingly funny because of how absurdly specific it is. Ben Hambro is a songwriter who’s paying very close attention to the world, finding it both sad and ridiculous simultaneously and the album carries the same warmth and wry detachment as Beck’s Loser. Too funny to be a sad breakup record, when long time caller closes with jamie xx as Ben longs for the banality of a stable relationship it’s genuinely sweet.