Gabrielle Aplin Phosphorescent

Marking a fresh back-to-basics approach, Gabrielle Aplin's fourth full-length, Phosphorescent is not a lockdown album, but it is the product of the solitude and strangeness that many of us experienced throughout that time. She says, "I was writing again for fun. I was purely expressing myself with no brief. No-one was telling me what to do, in fact I didn't have to do anything. At the start there was no goal, but as the songs started emerging I could see that they were about things I'd never really processed until that time". Her organic approach continued, first with a life-affirming reunion with her live band at Real World, and then with sessions at the countryside retreat of The Lark's Tongue studio. There she finished several song ideas with Liz Horsman, while Mike Spencer (producer of her Gold-certified No. 2 debut album English Rain) would recreate the environment that Gabrielle was in when she first wrote the songs.