Some songs take years to find themselves. ‘Mind Control’ had existed in fragments since as early as 2014. With a chorus melody here, a lyric there, the missing piece finally arrived in the form of a riff from an unreleased track written by vocalist Jon Dodd years earlier with bassist Nico Rigot. This is the result of old ghosts colliding with new vision, and you can hear every year of it.

The track shows The Heat Inc. at their most focused and most commanding. The vocals croon with a confidence that recalls Arctic Monkeys at their most iconic: that particular quality of cool that doesn’t try to be cool, it just is. Jon Dodd has a voice that commands a room, and ‘Mind Control’ is built around it without ever letting the production swamp what matters most.

The rock chorus is hard-hitting and anthemic, driving forward with real momentum and a grit that stops just the right side of accessible: heavy enough to satisfy, open enough to fill a festival field. The Heat Inc. maintain a very succinct blend of heaviness with melody at all times, and ‘Mind Control’ is that balance at its most perfectly calibrated.

The ending is the moment that seals it. What has been building throughout the track arrives in an uproar of rising vocals and anthemic intensity: not a cheap trick, but the natural conclusion of a song that has been earning it from the very first bar. It’s the kind of finish that leaves a crowd roaring.

‘Mind Control’ is less a reinvention than a refinement, the sound of a band that knows exactly who they are and has stopped trying to get in their own way. Hands down one of the best UK rock singles of the summer.