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Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
These things are sent to try us.
No pain, no gain.

All was going well at the time for 28 year-old Findlay Brown from York. His debut album Separated By The Sea had been widely hailed as the work of a major new singer-songwriting talent, and he was on his way back from another sold-out gig in London when he stopped the cab to get some money from a cash point. The driver accidentally reversed over his leg, breaking his ankle in two places and shattering his tibia.

“In a weird way, it felt like it had to happen,” he reflects, slowly sipping a Guinness in an East London pub. “I needed to slow down, stop working, and get some perspective on what I wanted to do for the next album.”

He made a fine start on that journey when he hooked up with producer Bernard Butler. “I loved the stuff he did with McAlmont and Butler, and that’s why I thought he would understand what I was trying to achieve with this record.”

“I wanted the words to be simple and straightforward too,” Findlay admits. “Both records I have done have been romantic records, but the first album was more personal, whereas I wanted these to be universal themes, which are love songs but are also spiritual, reflecting my feelings about the world in general. It sounds daft but I do feel like I’m on a spiritual journey, and this is just the next step.”