The various dualities that run through Luke’s life – not only his reserved nature coming up against his job as a performer, but his longing for home and security while spending a significant portion of his time out on the road – and the anxieties that bring forth are explored on both the album and ‘boy’.

His solo debut, ‘When Facing The Things We Turn Away From’, released in 2021, was written as a pandemic-led experiment, but the introspective ideas presented on that record haven’t left him. The album introduced Luke as a songwriter who looked inwards, reflected on his unusual adolescence, longed for normality; time spent away from the band he’d always written with gave him space to explore those themes in music, and those feelings weren’t limited to his lockdown headspace.

Describing the feeling he aims to convey on ‘boy’ as a vague and constant ache, it’s wholly present on the hazy balladry of the EP’s first offering ‘Shakes’.

“I think for me, songwriting is such a way to deal with how I see the world and how I feel, like my place around people,” Luke says. “It is a constant up and down, and I think I’m just sort of capturing moments in time of how I feel. This whole EP has this sort of longing to go home, and this ache for more emotionally. I think it was a definite need to get back to normalcy at home a little bit, with my wife and just being at home. It’s difficult to explain; it’s just something that I feel within me that I need to express and get out. Otherwise, that sort of gets trapped there.”