Delving deeply into the spaces between rock, ambient and Irish folk, it’s a powerfully hypnotic collection of mesmerising guitar riffs and rocking anthems with Connolly’s soulful vocals interwoven into the electronic fabric of McCallum’s distinctive soundworld. He has built the music layer by layer, overlaying embedded chords to create a big, big sound to frame Connolly’s singing. Her songs pour forth from her own life in a torrent of meaning – the way she writes is so emotionally reckless – excavating raw feeling with little in the way of defence. She sings songs of birth and death, women’s rights, first love, the call of motherhood, the death of men at sea and post-colonial wrongs.

Two other members are integral to The Breath, both of whom are born out of Manchester’s fertile music scene and whom McCallum met when they played together in Cinematic Orchestra – drummer Luke Flowers and pianist John Ellis. Hypnotic, lush, powerfully raw and raucously punchy, the Breath have delivered a debut album of songs with soul cleansing vocals to entrance, uplift and break your heart.