Skellig (album)

The whole nature of this record and this music is that it’s full of space and full of words and ideas—and you travel into it. It doesn’t sort of come and knock at your door. It’s very much a record you have to give to. So I think that this is a perfect time. Everybody understands this sort of inward direction of travel—because we’ve all been forced into it. So that’s just a weird coincidence. And the themes of the record—of isolation and escape and also sort of the difficulties of living in the modern world with all of its demands and its insanity—have only been amplified during lock down. It’s been a pretty crazy year on every level.