THIS is one case of the blues you should acquire. This is a disc with a risk that should not work. It is dissonant, often changing key and tempo and, across 11 songs, stabs and jabs at a range of genres – some of which should jar. But it works, boy how it works, packing as many welcome surprises as a hot kiss in a snowstorm.

Opening track Familiarity is a microcosm of this latest dazzlingly diverting sound-scape of the Punch Brothers. It’s ten minutes and 22 seconds long and flits and flirts from classical to folk via jolting time signatures and sublime harmonies the Beach Boys would covet.

But don’t stop there or you will miss the heart-twanging Julep, the album’s most conventional rock song Magnet, the beguiling bluegrass of Boll Weevil, the Thom Yorke-ist Forgotten, the magic mandolin lilt of closer Little Lights, et al. Original, crisp, inventive and unafraid of venturing into the unorthodox.