For Lily Lyons, music feels like hope - or perhaps, possibility. Growing up split between London and Somerset, making weekly eight hour drives across the country between the base she knew with her mother and the faraway town her father had left for, she remembers the comfort of the car stereo on the open road. As she grew older, struggling to fully realise herself in the world and to pick apart the often knotty and complicated relationships that had formed around her, music was the thing that offered a window to an alternative.

“There was so much wisdom in the music I was listening to - Simon and Garfunkel, Nick Drake and Joni Mitchell - the tenderness in it was so moving to me when I was 14,” she recalls. “There was this soft world that was so compelling to me, and it introduced me to a soft version of myself that wasn’t as welcomed in my actual life. It showed me that you can be all different things at once and that’s what my music has become - happy but with scathing lyrics, or really sad sounds with a joyful message. The tension of those opposites is really interesting to me.”

And so, when Lily decided on a gut feeling to sign up to music college despite having never written a note, it might have seemed insane to everyone else aside from her mum (“In the past she had kept herself smaller and she liked the idea of me being big,” she smiles). But, to Lyons, it made complete sense. Ensconced in the coastal town of Falmouth with little else to do but pour all her time and efforts into learning her craft, she immediately thrived.