Tracklist:

1. With You
2. SPLAT!
3. Late
4. Pruning 1
5. Pruning 2
6. Easy Fun
7. Glue
8. Second Best
9. He Laid His 97’s Neatly By the Door
10. Honeybee
11. Do You See Me Different? (Feat. Kamal)
12. Eating Rust
13. The Garden Dream

As shes gotten older, Ella Smoker has found that her subconscious has been trying to tell her some pretty wacky stuff. Thoughts will come to the 21-year-old singer-songwriter in dreams, or as she writes lyrics in studio sessions, words floating onto the page before shes really had a moment to realise what they are. As soon as we start making the music, my brain sort of turns off, she explains. Ill be sitting there, writing all this stuff that feels like a load of nonsense, and a month later, I’ll look back and be like oh. It all comes from a place I didnt even realise was there. In learning how to open up to herself, gglum ended up finding a kindred spirit in producer Karma Kid (Maisie Peters, Shygirl, Connie Constance), pushing past her natural bedroom-pop introversion to find joy in the process of collaboration. Whether its the ragged radio-rock of SPLAT! (basically about realising that somebody you held up very highly is actually just a massive shambles of a person) or the riotous, industrial energy of Easy Fun, Smoker is able to reshape her vocal around the mood, creating a record which expertly balances light and shade. I’ve never really done anything in like that vocal style before, she says of Easy Funs near-spoken delivery. I love that song because its not something I would have come up with on my own, but Karma Kid was great at pushing me out of my comfort zone. I just thought like, look: I can be a little silly with this.