"It was terrifying being so vulnerable, but it was all or nothing": Louise Patricia Crane's album features three members of King Crimson and Jethro Tulls Ian Anderson – it's also a work of beauty and darkness

Louise Patricia Crane leaning on a bar.

Belfast singer-songwriter Louise Patricia Crane sets herself high standards. Her solo debut album Deep Blue, in 2020, was a beguiling entry point into the multi-instrumentalist’s self-contained world, but the process left her feeling incomplete.

“It just wasn’t the full-bodied thing that I’d had in my mind,” she explains. “For various reasons, the stars didn’t align. So I felt I had a really big point to prove to myself.”