Beans On Toast brings his new album to Birmingham's Hare and Hounds on Tuesday

The cult legend and all round hero has an unfaltering DIY ethic at the forefront of his new record - and it's more than just in the name.

A Spanner In The Works sees Beans embracing technology to create a record simply made on a laptop, around a mate's house. While the new recordings still have Beans' trademark three chord folk songs at their heart, this time around each track is layered in myriad beats, loops, synths and samples, spanning an array of genres and styles.

Lead track and album opener 2016 lulls the listener in with a teasing taste of the familiar - being the only song on the record to feature any guitar. It is a classic Beans song and an ode to the mood of the country, in what has been a tumultuous year.

With celebrity deaths, terror threats, the referendum and the worrying rise of fascism, the track's conscious lyrics see Beans trying to make sense of the year and making a stand for what's right and good.

Beans said: "It might not be the cheeriest Beans on Toast song ever, but sadly it's been that kind of year."

From then on, the record heads into new territory. I Can Be That Tree sees the synths truly kick in on a song about Beans and his wife Lizzy Bee planting a tree in a public park to celebrate their first anniversary; it's a true digital folk love song.

Elsewhere, The Drum Kit sees Beans getting bold and brassy, on a song that bitterly tackles the issue of the increasing closure of live music venues across the country; the very same music venues that Beans has spent the last decade playing, touring and working in for nearly a decade.