Are you looking for some good news to kickstart your weekend?
Well, look no further, for Jens Kuross – from The Acid – has just released his debut full-length album. It’s called The Man Nobody Can Touch and it’s every bit as upbeat and chipper as you’d expect from the man behind such carefree pop ditties as I Only Ever Loved Your Ghost, Spiraling, and The Life Inside.
Oh, who are we kidding? It’s a fundamentally morbid body of work, and yet one that’s crammed full of more glorious harmonies and delectable melodies than Brian Wilson’s frontal lobe.
It’s so delectable, in fact, that we’re willing to stake our claim and say that the only difficult part of the entire album is picking your favourite track. It’s been tough, but we’ve spent this morning whittling the entirety of The Man Nobody Can Touch down to our top five – but, where do we go from here?
Firstly, we’ve got Unglued, with its crooning vocal and a solid 8/10 score on the ‘songs you didn’t expect to get stuck in your head but somehow manage it anyway’ scale.
Then we’ve got Painkiller, which arrives armed with a chorus fit for daytime radio and lyrical themes fit for the therapist’s couch.
But we can’t just ignore Jens’ stellar cover of LCD Soundsystem’s Someone Great, can we?
And we simply mustn’t disregard The Foxhole, with its subtle jazz influences and overbearing, multi-layered, and generally mindbending outro.
But then Done With Dancing comes along and we wonder whether this entire ordeal was all for nothing. After all, this is a fairly hefty #sadbanger, isn’t it?