Exactly 365 days after the release of ‘Punching Bag’, Wallice signed a record deal with Dirty Hit. Despite having half a million monthly listeners on Spotify, Wallice still felt like an imposter as she went to sign the contract (running thirty minutes late, thanks to London traffic). “Two kids in a trenchcoat is the perfect description of how I feel in this industry right now,” she says.

It marked the end of a hectic few weeks for the singer, who’s also just played her first-ever proper live shows supporting Chloe Moriondo in America. “I’ve played open mics before, but one of the shows was at The Roxy in LA. I’ve seen so many bands there,” she says. “Honestly, I haven’t processed either of those crazy life events,” she adds, drinking coffee to try and deal with jetlag.

Wallice might be taken aback by her achievements, but that isn’t down to a lack of ambition. As soon as she set her mind to becoming a musician, she gave it everything she had.

Growing up, Wallice’s dad was very strict, and when she told him about her dreams of attending New School’s Jazz Vocal Performance program in New York City, he suggested she think about studying business as a backup. “I know it was logical, but that sounded like a nightmare.” Luckily her mum couldn’t have been more supportive. “She’s my number one fan.”

She adds: “I didn’t grow up with everything just handed to me, which I’ve seen with a lot of people. I used to have a day job, working at my mom’s salon. I did eyelash extensions. I hated it, obviously.”

New standalone single ‘Wisdom Tooth’ is a “very transitional song” between her first EP and her second. “It’s an extension of ‘Off The Rails’, but it’s not quite part of the next EP,” she explains.

‘Wisdom Tooth’ was written the day before Wallice was due to get her wisdom teeth removed, and she was really nervous, “just because I’ve got really big teeth and a smaller mouth and jaw. We were working on the song, and the dentist called and started talking about bone grafts. It’s all I could think about.” The finished song compares a relationship with pulling teeth. Like a lot of Wallice’s songs, it stems from real-world events but isn’t held back by something as boring as the truth.

You might think Wallice might be feeling the pressure ahead of the release of ‘Wisdom Tooth’ since when she released ‘Off The Rails’, she had a modest fanbase. Now, there are millions of people waiting to see what she does next. Keep up, Wallice has had her battles with self-doubt ages ago.

See, ‘Off The Rails’ was written in a week last March, as Wallice and Marinelli made the six-hour drive to her grandparents in Utah. It was then finished off a couple of months later. “After that, we had another week to start work on EP two.”

The new EP is “the next chapter”, according to Wallice. “When we wrote ‘Off The Rails’, we were both living at home, dreaming of being musicians. Now we’ve both moved out, and this is our job, rather than a hobby we’re chasing. I feel more like an adult now.”

Wallice’s music is lo-fi, produced in a bedroom and tackles Gen-A anxiety with a sarcastic quip. On paper, it should be part of the same bedroom pop world as Clairo, Cavetown or Spill Tab. But there’s something rowdy about it.

That next run of shows comes in January, with Wallice supporting Still Woozy. “I’ve been listening to him since I was 19. I once DM’d him saying I loved his music and we should work on something together. He replied, telling me to send him something, but I never did.” Wallice isn’t as reserved anymore, though.