Other

“I call it, and my husband says it shouldn’t, “prog-pop” because this is an album based around the lyricism, based around the poetry and it’s also been written around the improvisation. So the way Guy Sigsworth and I work, he would send me a very simple track to which I would improvise and write the song to and then it goes back to him and he paints around it. 

It’s very lyrical based. It’s not been amputated to fit to a certain radio station. It’s an album proper like they used to make in the ’70s.

[On the album title] “Other. That’s what I’ve always been. What I’ve always felt. And when you are young, that’s always a scary place to be, a confusing place to be. Now that I’m firmly entrenched in middle age – which is the best of all ages – suddenly you find the fact that you are not the same as a particular mainstream, that you don’t consequently don’t find appealing, is a blessing.”

 ~ Alison, BUILD interview, 2017