The delicately pizzicato prickles of ‘exterior’ echo the quiet discomfort of mixed identity. “I wrote this song when I was covered in mosquito bites!” she comments. “Insect bites on the skin inspired me to explore other itches and niggles she felt within myself and my identity.”

The lyric ‘vague sense of irritation nestles under your exterior’ sums up a desire to connect with her heritage, to use the Japanese language she had within her but that felt out of touch, to inhabit fully her sexuality, and to understand what having a mixed identity means. When fragments of your identity are locked in memories from childhood spent in a different culture, how do we live in that identity as an adult?

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Following the biophilic previous single ‘dark green’, she shares ‘exasperate’ – a woody and angular track, alive with a restless percussive energy. Speaking on the track, she comments: “To exasperate somebody is to push them to their limits. This song is about knowing you did that, but also knowing it was true to who you are. Exasperated by the overpowering urge to break away from old patterns, to so desperately want the new at any cost, but to feel overwhelming regret for things lost, this song expresses the incessant pull of the unknown against the push of the familiar.”

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