Leave Your Soul To Science is the welcome return of Something For Kate: the trio’s highly anticipated sixth, long awaited studio album. From sparse, gentle lullabies to sharp, trancy epics, country-folk meanderings and sprawling, dirty rock drop outs: Leave Your Soul To Science is a bold, adventurous, exciting and very beautiful album. It’s Something for Kate at their most accomplished yet and it’s Dempsey’s most evocative, confident and incisive lyrical work to date.

The album sees him exploring a wider vocal range than ever: From the stunning falsetto that begins the hauntingly beautiful “Survival Expert” to the deep croon of the Springteen-esque “Private Rain”, musically too, the band have pushed their boundaries expanding and contracting with powerful abandon and restraint, presenting an eclectic but cohesive collection. And of course, Dempsey has a way of tackling a subject that’s not possible in mere conversation, pinning it down, getting to the crux of it and ripping your heart out all at the same time.