Eels offer up a taster from their latest album Cookie Happened with this beautifully bruised and bittersweet song, Cap In Hand.

I’ve had a bit of an on-off relationship with Eels since they first crashed into my life with that weirdly compelling single Susan’s House 30 years ago.

By which I mean that I haven’t followed them that closely over the course of their 15 albums to date.

This is a first taste of their 16th, Cookie Happened, and I like it a lot.

Bittersweet and beautifully bruised, Cap In Hand is sung from the perspective of a damaged man finally confronting his mistakes and attempting to set things straight.

Warm-hearted and ruefully triumphant, it finds singer E – Mark Everett – sounding wearily defeated and celebrating the strange miracle of having been here at all.

It’s a familiar point of view from someone whose work has always combined heartbreak and humour with emotional honest.