Northern outsider-pop project Dilettante has shared her new single ‘Easy Does It’ via Launchpad+ / EMI North. The single is a rousing slice of danceable art-pop.

Of the new single, Francesca says: “I was cycling to the studio space where I wrote this record (in the rain because Manchester) when this double decker bus drove past me and completely soaked me. So I got into the space, totally wet through and I was thinking of all the times I hadn’t been drenched by an errant bus driver and I just thought ‘God, I didn’t know how good I had it back then when I was dry’. So that became the sort of core of the song, it’s all about not appreciating what you’ve got.

“A lot of it came from thinking about the way I saw someone I know being treated by their partner – it just seemed very condescending and like they were being taken for granted – and I was thinking “What are you doing? They’re great just as they are, stop nagging at them to change, you don’t know how good you’ve got it!” but then kind of reflecting that back on myself because I know I’ve treated people that way in the past.”