On his creative process, he explains: “I definitely don’t go into the studio unless there’s something on my chest. The reason I’m writing in the first place is that I’m trying to express myself, and that’s generally because I’m feeling down, or I feel a bit lost or confused. Then the process of actually making the music improves my mental health and makes me feel better by the end of it.

“I’m trying to keep records a bit chaotic,” he laughs. Having worked with many young artists over the past few years, he comments: “I don’t want to make records in slick studios; it doesn’t appeal to me. It’s more challenging to get artists to want to stay true to the sound that made them popular in the first place because if artists have been made popular by music that they’ve created in their bedrooms, and then they’re being thrown by huge record labels into these studios, it doesn’t sound very good for some of them… I’m in the middle somewhere between the really DIY studios and the really slick studios, so I’m trying to juggle everything.”

On the impact of lockdowns and coronavirus on future music, he considers: “I’m looking forward to a lot of new music coming out and a lot of new bands who have started out during lockdown. I think there’s going to be a huge wave of music that doesn’t necessarily fit in with what was most popular before lockdown. Like, post-punk was really doing the rounds before lockdown, and I personally feel like I can’t pursue any more post-punk. I need something different. There’s going to be a lot of new artists pushing slightly obscure genres into the mainstream, more so than ever.

Taken from the August 2021 edition of Dork, out now. Dead Nature’s debut album ‘Watch Me Break Apart’ is out now.