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On the day that Spinal Tap announce their latest ‘world tour’, it seems an apposite time to look at one of rock and roll’s greatest clichés. I’ve no idea whose sophomore effort it was that failed to live up to a dazzling debut originally, but ‘the difficult second album’ has become as much a part of rock mythology as turning it up to 11.

Certainly, for every shoddy ’Second Coming’ there’s also a dazzling ’Dog Man Star’, and for every lacklustre Libertines there’ll always be sheer Nirvana. Presumably wanting to steer clear of the debate altogether, Elvis Perkins has chosen the...