Lisa O’Neill’s voice is disarming: sometimes as serrated as a knife; sometimes as soft and creamy as butter. She showcases both sides to startling effect here, and there’s an oppositional fury tucked into her songwriting. Of course, the title track’s a rail against the lurch towards autocracy, and the lyrical resistance is lucid, but never does her message feel forced or didactic. She’s too skilled and subtle to bludgeon her audience.

Her famous cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘All The Tired Horses,’ which introduced her to a new generation through Peaky Blinders, is included here in all its skeletal, spellbinding glory, and her version of Christina Rossetti’s timelessly lovely ‘In The Bleak Midwinter’ brings a warmth to the chilly air: the very antithesis of John Lewis advert treatments with its minimalistic drone and accordion.

It’s ‘Homeless In The Thousands (Dublin In The Digital Age)’ which is most affecting though, reconciling the sins of the past (poverty, wars, the Magdalene Laundries) with the contemporary flipside of Dublin, focussing on the ones who have fallen through the cracks in society amid austerity culture.

With the recent, untimely passing of wonderful Sinead O’Connor still present in the minds of so many, O’Neill occupies a similar territory: that of necessary truth – telling and passionate anthems for our times, gorgeously arranged and sung. These songs are unforgettable, sobering and absolutely devastating.