I knew I was ready for a change.” Says Emma Tricca of the direction on her latest album, St Peter. Even when she was making 2014’s Relic, the seeds were already being sewn for where she would and what would crop up next. “I seem to start thinking about the next record halfway through recording whatever I’m recording; it’s a never-ending process. I constantly think about lines, poems, melodies. I carry a notepad with me at all times.”

As someone who has spent the years since her last record travelling between London, Rome, and New York, it works to Tricca’s advantage that she’s able to respond whenever inspiration strikes. Songs for this album were penned in Soho cafes, Pigneto apartments and Bushwick lofts. “I guess I seem to follow the inspiration when it comes, “ she says. “Often the songs are sparked by everyday life images.” If this conjures up the image of a travelling poet soaking up life and all its offerings, then that’s not too far off the mark as poetry is a significant inspiration for Tricca . “1950s beat poetry, the Italian twilight movement Crepuscolari and Hermetic philosophy are amongst my biggest influences,” she says.

If the album is formed together by countless everyday images and experiences from an artist who is creatively alert at all times, then it was carried over the finish line by an equally vast and eclectic number of musicians. Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley is on drums, Pete Galub on bass, The Dream Syndicate’s Jason Victor on guitar (amongst other instruments) and various guest performances come from the likes of Howe Gelb, Paper Dollhouse’s Astrud Steehouder and folk icon Judy Collins. Collins whose manager loved Tricca’s 2009 record Minor White (released on Jane Weaver's record label Bird) was an especially big deal for Tricca. “I literally learned to play fingerpicking watching old footage of Judy that I had taped when I first started getting into that kind of guitar sound. I had burnt a hole in that tape as I was rewinding and fast-forwarding it so much.”