“All Down The Mines” is a 47-second long interlude that was inspired by one day in which Ben Howard simply decided to dig a hole, a massive one. While talking to The Times in 2018, the musician told the story about how he ended up digging up the back garden of his home in Devon:

I dug a hole… I think to meditate in, I’m not sure. It was a big old hole. Massive, most of the garden in fact. I didn’t know what I was doing.

In seeking inspiration, I felt I needed to do something manual. By the end, the hole was 5ft deep in places. I’d say, terraces of 5ft each. I didn’t have a digger, although I did get help at stages. Still, it took quite a while. It looked horrific when I was halfway through.

He was then asked what happened when the hole was finished.

Er, not a lot. I sat in it a bit. They [his band] came round for a few loose sessions in the house, but I don’t think I even got a song out of all the digging. In the end, I had the hole turfed, which was pretty pointless, as the garden was turfed to begin with.”