Remember the cold, desolate landscape that was the future of new UK music back in 2016? You know, before Rag’N’Bone Man and Stormzy blazed a record-breaking trail through the charts and the history books with releases that will no doubt be among the defining debuts of 2017, whilst in the process allaying any fears that the UK music industry is in anything but the very rudest of health?

Cast your minds back just a few short months and things weren’t ...