The way Cameron Picton tells it, as his time came to an end playing bass and sharing lead vocals in Black Midi, he was exhausted from being part of a successful band and skeptical of starting a new one; he was finding fresh inspiration in the singer-songwriter music that spoke to him as a teenager but feeling boxed in by the aesthetic limitations of the genre. He started writing songs whose lyrics approached complex, intertwining narratives from multiple perspectives, but he was resistant to telling linear stories or writing in character. He was burnt out and fired up, embracing a future of endless possibility through a merciless process of elimination. Read more of Pitchfork's article HERE.