It’s a case of new year, new album for Gabrielle Aplin, who returns this month with Phosphorescent, her fourth LP. Written on her beloved 1940s Martin 0-17 at her Somerset home, the songs took their cue from the natural world that surrounded her. Homespun acoustic guitars then developed across an unfolding landscape of 11 texturally rich songs with the help of producer Mike Spencer (who also steered her Gold-certified debut English Rain) at his The Lark’s Tongue eco-studio. As Gabrielle says of the album’s concept: “I wanted the first track to feel like waking up on a hazy Sunday morning and the last track to feel like the night of the best day ever.”
In conversation with TG, she
