This is the highlight of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ 15th album, Push The Sky Away – their first without Mick Harvey, but with the return of Barry Adamson.

For a long time I thought Nick Cave could never better The Mercy Seat. After all, he’d been making records for years and who gets better the longer they do that?

Virtually alone in the music firmament, Cave has been doing exactly that for decades. There have been many peaks along the way, and all his fans have their own favourites.

This is mine.

It appeared just before the end of his 15th album Push The Sky Away in 2013, arriving unexpectedly ad unheralded compared to the album’s singles Jubilee Street and We No Who U R.

Nearly eight minutes long, it’s an epic tale of (a) man’s quest to find God – or rather the “God particle” as the Higgs Boson has been known – at the CERN lab in Geneva: a discovery that some felt would obviate the need for any other god in our world.

But there’s so much more to it than that.

Not least some very funny satire about “Hannah Montana in the African savannah”, poking fun at virtue-signalling celebrities whose commitment to the cause is often skin deep.

It’s one of those rambling narrative sogs that Cave does so well, taking the listener in unexpected directions on a journey that doesn’t end well for poor Miley.