Tell us about your upcoming record.

It was written across a whole year so the songs were transformed several times from the first demo to the final version. I think I was also trying for every song to be very different from each other. The album speaks about travelling, about being alone, alone surrounded by people, at work, around large groups of friends, and sometimes even around those who you love. It talks about feeling impassive or immobile when you know you should be excited.

With the writing I worked to place characters on a staged space and write around them, having them stay the same and having the space around them change. You stand still and people and places move and change and from your perspective, you stay the same while watching it all happen. You don’t notice you are changing as well.

How has living in London affected your musical output?

I think it has made it colder outside, warmer inside. I don't mean necessarily more sad or difficult than before, but more introverted. Colder because that's just how the city is and because everyone around me here is always working on something. Sometimes it is very boring to talk about what you are working on, so you just lock yourself in and do it. It got warmer because I met people that believe in me, sometimes more than I believe in myself, and that is comforting and gives me confidence.

“Highbury Grunge” is an intriguing track title. Could you talk about any meaning behind it?

The title is just an inside joke, nothing more! The song partially talks about current friends and is quite present-time focused so the small joke seemed to have its place.

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