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such a great, solid team behind me now. I feel a lot more secure about everything, and it’s such a relief to finally have an album out and doing the live show was a lot of fun, even though there was no audience or anything. So I’m just grateful and really happy it’s all finally out.

QWhen did you know you’d want to go into the “family business?”

AIt was what I would always find refuge in. I would be in my room. listening to all my music — that’s where I felt most at home. It was kind of secret for awhile. I kept it to myself ‘cause you never want it know that you want to do what your parents do. Eventually it became undeniable. I felt like it chose me, this force that pulls you towards something you can’t really ignore. It was a very natural, kind of unconscious pull in that direction, I guess. It makes sense I’d feel that, I think. I was excited but completely terrified. I had never done it in front of anybody. I didn’t know if I would open my mouth and some frog noise would come out!. But it went really, really well.

QHow did you arrive at the sound we’re hearing on “Vacare Adamare?”

AI’ve had so many influences. Definitely the whole Bristol sound that came out in the 90s — Tricky, Massive Attack, Portishead, all those really ambient, experimental bands. I’m a huge Annie Lennox fan as well, Eurythmics. I love Shakespear’s Sister as well. There’s a lot of Prince I listen to, even a lot of Lauryn Hill; Growing up she was kind of my god. And then Talking Heads, the Cure... just all kinds of stuff, really.

QAAnd dad?

I still haven’t figured that out. (laughs) It’s a constantly evolving thing, because the idea that you’re this person’s daughter is always immediately at the forefront — which is fine. It’s not a bad thing to be associated with that. For me the tricky part is the business side and how that influenced the people I would become associated with there, the pre-conceived notion thing. That’s the most exhausting part. People have all these assumptions, and obviously I’m not making the same kind of music as my father does.