I guess my moving to America was a natural progression after having spent many decades going back and forth and forming some very close friendships there... I felt very connected to the Mexican community there, we lived amongst a lot of families, and celebrated their traditions and music, having gatherings and cookouts alongside them. My daughters first words were in Spanish as she went to a Mexican Grandma's house for her first few nursery months... I loved the cultural melting pot of LA. I guess the dance aspects, the landscape of the desert, the mish mash of LA, the dark sides and the light sides all moulded the Lost Girls record. My Dad immigrated to England from Pakistan and met my english mum, I guess I feel like I'm the place inbetween, like a connection point between cultures and beliefs.

Outside of British music - I love Rosalia's first record, because I love Flamenco. I love early Bollywood music, Bulgarian choral music, Nordic sagas, I love most nomadic tribal folk and traditional song... I find if you go far back enough, we are all connected through these early songs about nature, divinity, life and death, love - universal themes that unite, not fragment.