“‘modern anxiety’ as an album came together for me when I stopped judging and started accepting my own personal melodrama. Thoughts and feelings I might have once called indulgent and given no air to, now had a place. It was still okay to laugh at them, to realise (correctly, usually) how over-the-top and insignificant they were in the grand scheme of things, but at least they finally had a seat at the little table in my head. The album is a collection of songs that go to these places. It revels in insecurity and clumsiness, and attempts honesty.

The first song I wrote for the album was 'Human', in London at the start of 2016. The last song I wrote for it was 'Enough', which I wrote in summer last year in Paris. The intervening years were spent travelling around writing with people. A lot of songs were written and got stored away. Distilling all the songs down to the 'modern anxiety' ten was not so much a process of picking the best song or the catchiest or the coolest – it was about which songs best served the truth and the ideas behind the record, and sat most comfortably together as a body of work.

In terms of direct subject matter, some of the album is autobiographical and some of it is more aspirational. I guess at its core it is interested in relationships – the one with yourself and those you have with others. It’s all there in lyrics.”