There are few songwriters who leave one scrambling for superlatives, and Canadian troubadour Ronald Eldon Sexsmith is one such musician. Here is a man who apparently dreams up a couple of genius melodies before most of us have had our morning coffee, a man whose melodic gifts see him regularly compared to such greats as McCartney and Simon (indeed these are just two of his many famous fans who know their way around a tune). He’s that good.

Forever Endeavour is his twelfth album and it’s every bit as good as anything he’s done, which is to say it’s very fine indeed.

Declan Murphy