I’ve always needed glasses, since school. I’m now at a complicated stage of glasses that growing up involves, I won’t go into it, it’s a fucking bore. However, I have always enjoyed the superpower of being able to see the world slightly blurred when I need to, and the world at the moment is very harsh and very real and wayyyy too close. I like the 70s textured glass of municipal buildings, net curtains in chintzy B&Bs, the wrong glasses, no glasses, clouded windows, that yellow sellophane they used to put in department store windows to stop things fading in the sun, swimming pool light, reflected light. My lyrics are detailed, but not too specific, a little distant, a little blurred, and I like listeners to find their own way in the music, and sometimes this takes a long time and repeated listens, and that’s ok. This is certainly not the way to write a hit, I get it.

Thinking today about ways to obscure the obvious, or take unexpected paths without being doggedly opaque? Blend and smudge a little, loosen up, free myself from the safety of structure, let a little fractured light into the municipal building.