Martin Rossiter fronted Gene, a foppish, Smiths-y quartet who sold 1m records in the Britpop era without troubling Oasis or Blur. Since then, fatherhood, depression and music teaching have led to this surprise reemergence. Opener Three Points on a Compass is Resister's withering address to the father who left when he was young. "The only thing I ever got from you was my name/ You broke our home, and I will never forgive," he sings, the harrowing words belied by the song's eerie beauty. Elsewhere, he tackles mortality, self-loathing and murder, but packs in so many super-strength melodies that he never sounds morose. There's black humour in lyrics such as "If my heart skips a beat, I'll seek medical attention". Deep Anchor rewires Coldplay's The Scientist into a song of deep longing. I Must Be Jesus comically and gloriously combines depression, a Welsh male voice choir and Rossiter's apparent childhood belief that he must be Christ. An unlikely but often brilliant comeback.