It's been an extraordinary journey for Gaz Coombes, from flashily whiskered pop tearaway to Ivor Novello and BRIT award winning rock star as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the English alternative rock band Supergrass to a bold, ambitious, free-thinking, future-facing rock 'n' roll solo career inspired by Grayson Perry's Descent of Man, Frank Ocean's Blonde, Californian weed, British woodlands, unchecked masculinity, Neu! and hip hop with expansive, addictive melodies, deep soul purges and coruscating Fripp-goes-motorik sprints via gorgeous cyclonic ballads and raw-as-hell streams of consciousness panic attacks.