Jamie Irrepressible: There were tracks that were part of the same world and message that I wanted to add to the record and some of the tracks on the initial digital release I wanted to improve on before it was set onto CD and could no longer be altered.

There’s always a sense of catharsis or raw emotion as the focus of my songwriting and then I orchestrate what I call a landscape around this that holds the emotion of the words and the meaning of the song.

It’s about humanity as the resounding morality. Far too many supposed moralities lack humanity or a true sense of compassion and care.

I think we lose sight of this often in the interests of being the same, fitting in, or feeling like we belong, rather than celebrating what makes us different. Life would be very dull if we were all just the same. So, it’s about owning this difference, how it’s your nature, and how you accept that the next person is different to you.

I feel we live in a time of so much corporate and manufactured music. It’s nice to reach out and do something as an indie band that connects a sense of community beyond what we are constantly pushed from mainly American corporations through their social media platforms.

The desire to put into music desire. To make a record about being homosexual with a focus on the sexual. The part we often shield from the straight world out of shame. But that is so much the thrust of most straight music. It’s record by and for the queer community. My earlier work though always openly homosexual was always focused on the beauty and love of being in love with other men.

I think for me simply there’s a chance to make a record like this and it be heard. Whereas it would have had to be more coded in the past, more disguised.

My aim is to be part of the message. To be part of the story and the personal story of queer people. In the past to make music that inspires greater connection and appreciation of the naturalness of queer sexuality but with this record it’s like a space away to be fully ourselves.

For me genre is just a means to express different emotions. On this record I use grunge/rock/punk distorted guitars as they express the sexual and visceral so well for me. On earlier records I used orchestral instrumentation to create the space for intense internal emotion and sorrow. I’m very interested in different genre’s currently to express other spaces that hold different senses of time space, lineage, and emotion. I will always be Irrepressible in my way of working with music.

I love allowing other visual artists to collaborate and take the music into film, or a photograph, or design an outfit that fits the sonic. For me that’s what is so great about pop music. It’s where fashion, art, and music collide.

In an early collaboration with another dance artist, I started to explore singing in falsetto rather than head voice which sits much better in electronica. I used to sing more often in head voice / countertenor with guitar and classical music as it loud and powerful, but the soft falsetto voice works best in electronic close mic music. Royksopp were and are the wind beneath my wings in the studio. They are respectful, kind, and enthusiastic – it was pure joy to work with them, a high even. They are wizards with the sound and craft of electronic music. With Tinlicker we have only worked online. They send me instrumentals which I compose lyrics and melodies over. Again, I adore their work and the collabs we made together.

Empowered and full of joy! We’re very excited about the shows at EarTH tonight (Friday 29^th August) and in Manchester on Sunday (31st August.)