This is not a comment so much on California, but it was meant to be about something really, really beautiful, a landscape or a place. Nature and landscape have quite a lot of importance to me in terms of my writing. There’s a different kind of energy going on. That is what I wanted for the album as a whole-that juxtaposition.” I loved the fact that there was the intro then it went straight into that beat and guitar part. I wanted it to be a strong introduction to the album, and it’s also the antithesis of ‘Californian Soil’ in some ways. “That string part had been floating about for a while. “Just messing about-which has made it different.” Here, she takes us though the experience, track by track. Jam sessions with bandmates Dan Rothman and Dot Major birthed the trio’s richest and most adventurous album to date, stretching from the neon-lit pop of “How Does It Feel” to the spartan ballad “America.” In between, collaborating with house maestro George FitzGerald brings dance-tent sparkle to “Baby It’s You” and “Lose Your Head.” “We did things where we were, ‘We’re going to make something that the world is never going to hear. That unfettered attitude carried over into making the music. “I was like, ‘Even if this album is never released, or I decide that I can’t do this anymore, I may as well say whatever it is that I want to say.’ In doing that, I felt a lot of strength come back to me as a person.” “It was so liberating,” she tells Apple Music. Lacking the energy to keep considering external opinions and expectations, she focused on what she wanted to express as a songwriter-and saying it more explicitly than before. But it was precisely because of this low that Reid could forge a path towards Californian Soil. The singer/multi-instrumentalist was also living with the chronic pain condition fibromyalgia. Over the previous year, the release of the trio’s second LP, Truth Is a Beautiful Thing, and subsequent tour had thrown up experiences that fostered her disillusionment with the music industry-not least the sexism she regularly encountered. Hannah Reid wasn’t in a great place when London Grammar began working on their third album towards the end of 2017.
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