This I was Laurie [Blundell, producer and collaborator] and I’s first adventure into minimalism. I’ve been interested in minimalism for a while, but this is when it really began to peak. I really started to delve into Erik Satie, Nils Frahm and Philip Glass, and explore the wonders of limitation. I’ve been meditating for five or six years, and a big part of my meditation is mantra -repeating a mantra over and over again. This is a mantra-based song where the mantra is, ‘I don’t want to be sad anymore. I don’t want to be sad anymore! There’s subtle development in the piano part-the thing with minimalism that’s fascinating is you change one tiny bit, and it feels like an entire orchestra is coming in, one change of a note.

— via Apple Music