Serving up perfect pop, Abbie Ozard is hot stuff. Words: Jamie Muir. Photo: Charlotte Rudd.

A good meal does wonders. Yeah, it’s the sort of quote that you’d expect to hear from relatives as you tuck into your evening supper and yes, it’s the sort of obvious, everyday fact that doesn’t really need explaining - but that doesn’t mean it isn’t bang-on, right?! It’s something everyone turning up at the Ozard family cafe knows, a melting pot of different lives and surroundings all taking a moment out to tuck into another hearty meal. It’s also where you’d find a young Abbie Ozard serving up meals and coming across all sorts of different personalities - but only on the nights where she didn’t have a gig on, of course.

The result is that Abbie Ozard isn’t serving up just good scran anymore, but dazzling indie-pop gems too. In just over a year, Abbie hasn’t just made an opening impression but scrawled her name across playlists and new music ears in big letters for the world to see - releasing track after track of confessional brilliance that signals the arrival of a new favourite artist for many.

Bottling teenage angst into sharp but dreamy anthems that you could imagine scribbled across diaries and scrapbooks, there’s a certain magic that comes with everything Abbie Ozard touches. Whether it’s the hazy sunshine of ‘Pink Sky (Endless Summer)’ and it’s endless possibilities, the ripping open-top drive of ‘True Romance’ or the overflowing wrap that is latest number ‘Breakdown’ - every track manages to sound both of another world and yet distinctively of our own at the same time. Tackling crumbling relationships, romanticising times that may never truly be as we describe, finding comfort in an online world or taking yourself to daydreams every now and then - it’s a recipe that’s bound to steal hearts.