26 November 2025
What was the inspiration behind the album?
Even though my musical output up to now has consisted of electronic pop, I’ve always been a sucker for a little piano vocal number. This is how I first learnt to write music; when I taught myself how to write songs by learning all of the tunes from the jazz ‘real book’. Over the last few years, I was very reflective. Partly because my love life was really turbulent, and because I developed some fresh perspectives on some of the men I grew up which provoked some rather complicated feelings – hence the title. Sonically this was inspired by the classic piano and strings sound of 70s artists like The Carpenters, Gilbert O’Sullivan and Billy Joel.
How long did the album take to create from start to finish?
Because I wanted a proper live and authentic feel, I got into a studio one day in August and recorded 18 songs, singing and playing at the same time. I chose 8 to go on the album, and added a string section to 4 of them afterwards which I did at home with my violin, over the course of a few weeks. ‘falling in love in the SE1’ however took a bit longer as all the parts were created separately. This was an at home job too, I was living with a jazz guitarist – Jago Furnas at the time, and I recorded his guitar part in the living room back in 2024. If we are counting from when I wrote the songs, this album has technically taken years because I wrote the first one ‘the flowers’ during a very strange and intense dating situation I got myself into in 2022. I think that song is what majorly sparked my piano phase.
Which track was written first?
The flowers.
Do you have any personal favourite tracks?
Clement I reckon. I kind of wrote this one on the down low, because I was secretly finding someone else’s sorrow difficult, but I didn’t want him to know that. I guess because I was creating it just for me to make sense of something, it always has a cathartic feeling for me listening back to it. All the effects, chords and lyrics have little allegories to loneliness and beauty that only I really understand, so it feels quite satisfying to what I knew at the time.
Were any tracks difficult to write?
‘what would I say if I could be there now’ because I was confronted with a new perspective on mine and someone else’s childhood. It was a lot of emotions that sort of came out of nowhere after seeing some old VHS footage, and I’m glad I had songwriting to put it all into one creative little package to process it into something nice.
What do you have coming up in the next 12 months?
Gigs, new music and a new creative project!
Genre: acoustic, singer-songwriter, chamber pop, jazz influenced pop
Released: 14th November 2025
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You can read my Independent Music Monday interview with Sansha here.
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