I think it is fair to say that if one approached a mainstream music journo, and asked them what they thought of a music album based around Heisenberg’s 1927 uncertainty principle overturning the perception that science could provide an ever more precise description of our world, said chap or chapette would look at you in bogglement and declare you pretty weird, at best a boring old fart.

Yet, Hats Off Gentlemen, It’s Adequate not only manage to bring such a topic to life, they do so with excitement, panache, urgency. They are one of the finest acts in modern rock music, I think, and their eighth album moves it forward again.

The award refers to the track Copenhagen, a disputed conversation between Werner Heisenberg, the pioneer of the uncertainty principle, and a leader of the German nuclear programme, and his former mentor, Niels Bohr. Just listen to this guitar solo.