ugly ozo are having a bit of a moment, and, honestly, it sounds like a lot to deal with. Led by Jessica Baker, the Isle of Wight trio’s new EP ‘dive’ is stacked with big feelings and bigger hooks.

Written through breakups, burnout, falling in love and generally having her life do a full 180, Jessica doesn’t exactly hold back. ‘dive’ goes straight for it, with every thought laid out in black and white whether it’s convenient or not.

So, naturally, here she breaks it all down, track by track - because if you’re going to overshare, you may as well commit to the bit.

I wrote this track about confronting my demons and basically telling them to get fucked. At the time of writing ‘hi, how are you?’, I was definitely feeling burnt out and disillusioned with my life. It was affecting my sleep and my creativity like crazy. This track is like a conversation with everything that was weighing me down, and making the decision to not let it control me anymore. I personally love the nursery rhyme ‘la la la’s’ on it too, it’s kind of creepy.

This was potentially the easiest song to write on the EP, thanks to my ex-boyfriend. He was such a nightmare, and I stayed with him for way too long because, for some reason, I thought that was better than being on my own. Writing ‘overkill’ was a really fun way to get it out of my system after I broke up with him. It’s got these super poppy hooks over angsty guitars, and lyrically it’s really on the nose about how it went down. I personally love the line ‘I watched a movie, it’s called 10 Things I Hate About You’, because that was how I wanted to approach writing the song - by listing the things I hated about him.

This song is so cheeky, and I LOVE it. It’s a completely different side to my writing; it’s like the hot sauce drizzled on top of the EP. My producer, Macks, and I had been knee-deep in the studio for a long time, and we decided to just write something quick and fun to break us out of it. I had a huge new crush at the time, but I didn’t want to make the same mistakes I had in previous relationships, where I put them on a pedestal and lost myself. This time, I felt confident, like I was on the pedestal. So with that, ‘jackpot’ came about in maybe an hour, and we just kept sparking all these ideas and rushing to record them before we forgot them. It was really fun to write something so flirty and tongue-in-cheek after I’d just been pouring my heart out all week, so it’s definitely a standout track to me for that reason.

I went through a pretty big friendship breakup last year, and ‘godspeed’ is a sum of my parting thoughts on that. It’s about a friend causing harm and acting out of selfishness with no accountability, and the knock-on effect that has on your relationship. It was impossible to confront them because the blame would always end up back on me, so I distanced myself until we were no more. It’s a really sad track. I often find it tough to say how I feel in the moment, so this song explains it in the aftermath once I’d gained clarity on the situation. What can I say, I’m a huge oversharer.

‘MISERY’ is my depressed cheerleader song. It’s about saving face and pretending everything’s fine when you’re low-key having a really bad time. It’s super personal and honest, about facing my weaknesses and everything I don’t like about myself - being a people pleaser, fucking up, putting on a performance. It’s like a big cheerleader confessional, with the whole squad chanting ‘M.I.S.E.R.Y’, until this big anthemic explosion at the end. It felt like the perfect ending to the EP because of that; it’s a real curtain call.

ugly ozo's EP 'dive' is out now.