On this episode I have a conversation with Romy Madley Croft, also known just as Romy, about her first solo record Mid Air. Romy is perhaps best known as a guitarist and vocalist in the band The XX, but despite this being her official solo debut, she has been around as a solo artist for quite a while.

Mid Air hearkens back to her queer nightlife days in the 1990s and 2000s when she was listening to a lot of emotional dance pop music in clubs. I love this album because it’s one you can easily dance around to with 5 people or 5000 people, and at the same time it's an album you can lie back and close your eyes and get lost in. She collaborated with Fred Again... and Stuart Price to create this world - and it really is a world you step into as the listener.

It was very cool for me to get to talk to Romy because The XX’s debut album came out right when I was in my first year of uni, and it occupies a very particular place in my musical canon.