Opus Kink’s debut album, ‘The Sweet Goodbye’, is presented as a vivid extension of the Brighton six-piece’s energetic live shows, combining jazz, punk, folk and prominent horn arrangements. The review finds the record teasing, passionate and unpredictable, balancing celebratory, theatrical music with lyrics about anxiety, fractured modern life, self-doubt and heartbreak.

Highlights include the saxophone-led opener ‘Over, Do Me Wrong’, the high-tempo but dark ‘Will It Come For You?’, and ‘Peckham Nocturne’, whose instrumentation evokes a smoky late-night jazz club. The album also features ‘The Head Tree’, inspired by Alice Mollard’s 1685 witchcraft execution and featuring The New Eves, while the longest track, ‘Crucify!’, uses a loose mambo rhythm and a chaotic crescendo to explore emotional pain before ‘Oh, Irony’ closes on a more delicate note.