Headache

Two years on from the beloved, outta nowhere LP ‘The Head Hurts But The Heart Knows The Truth’, Vegyn reprises a winning formula of low-slung beats and AI-recited poetry as Headache, typically laid down in double vinyl form as vocal versions on the first disc, plus instrumentals on the second. Based on the strength of its immediate merits, from the sense of shrug-it-off melancholy to the beguiling lyrics and behind-the-ear presentation, ‘Thank You For Almost Everything’ is primed to repeat the success of its predecessor with over an hour of effortlessly heart-grabbing songs with evidently broad appeal - if the previous stat’s don’t lie: over 19.4 million times on arms dealer-funding Spotify alone, with a growing global fanbase already getting his lyrics tattooed.

‘Thank You For Almost Everything’ feels cheerily nostalgic as a scrapbook of faded teenage snapshots, and perhaps a set taken on early holidays, as felt in the album’s departure from a peculiar melancholy inherent to blighty, to warmer, Balearic climes. Rejoined by writer and poet Francis Hornsby Clark, whose lyrics are regaled by droll AI on the first disc, the duo gently but firmly grab attention for the duration with an end-of-summer sound reminiscing on ruffled hair at school, the changing of the seasons in Rome, arguments with girlfriends at luxury beachfront hotels (OK maybe his holidays were different to ours lol), with a low-key life-affirming quality.