After a long hiatus, Jesse Sykes has fortunately overcome a rather dark period in her life and returned to music, with her band Jesse Sykes And The Sweet Hereafter's new album 'Forever, I've Been Being Born' emerging as a clear highlight of 2025. A masterpiece of ghostly, evocative folk, it will lead you into the woods with it and leave you lost in there forever.

This chat with Jesse was more or less the human conversation version of her music. She was warm, humble, thoughtful and also remarkably honest in the way she recalled some of the tougher times of the last decade, and the not always pretty events that she used to motivate herself to climb out of them - and, in the end, how this quiet, soulful piece of music that is the new record is indeed a distillation of all of those things, and more besides.

Tune in now, this is a special one.