I only ever met by grandfather when I was three weeks and he was in a nursing home with dementia. Anyone who has followed my music over the past years will know that my last album was a lot about helping to care for my own father with dementia.

As my wife was pregnant with our first child, my father was getting sicker and I was scared that he wouldn’t live to met her. Very fortunately they did meet when she was three weeks old. He died a few weeks later.

In their brief meeting two ends of the circle of life touched, closing a loop I feared would be forever yawning. But in that cathartic moment, I felt another loop open and was shaken. I saw myself in my father, and my daughter in me and I felt joy and grief in overlapping waves, beautiful and complicated, which continue to ripple outward.

‘Loops’ is my attempt to make sense of this incredible time.