The mini-album, recorded during rehearsals for the Storm Damage Tour in January 2020, is a stripped-back piano-and-vocals set that was due for release during Watt’s world tour last year before it was held up by pandemic-related postponements and the ultimate cancellation of all his shows. “In an ideal world, the recordings would have come out last year mid-tour,” says Watt, “but instead, they close a chapter on a year of lockdown. For a while, I thought about abandoning them, but listening again, I thought their unadorned spirit seemed to speak to something of the strength in adversity we have all looked for recently.”