Enter Now Brightness is a record of poise and great beauty, the sound of a cellular shift, of pain giving way to tenderness and joy. Reid was pregnant during its creation, and plagued by morning sickness — there are photos of her asleep on the studio sofa and memories of vomiting between takes. But she found impending motherhood, and, later, the intricate process of raising her daughter, brought a new focus for songwriting. It runs through the tracks on Enter Now — including the exquisite new single Baby Bright.

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"When my first daughter was born she had these massive bright blue eyes - she still does. And when she was born I did have this really intense drive to create - I felt very invigorated. Everything felt sharper and accessible and it all came to the surface.” Reid reveals of the song.

For the first time in her career, Reid entered the studio (with long-standing guitarist Sam Taylor and producer Tom Healy (Tiny Ruins, Marlon Williams)) without a clutch of songs written and ready to record. There were half-songs and sketches and lyrics untethered from music. “There was a revelation of: it doesn’t have to be finished, it doesn’t have to be a perfect song before it’s taken to the band.” The results find Reid moving ever further from her earlier folk inclinations, establishing a sound that is distinctly her own.

“I think for me, becoming a mother brought all of [the issues of] the inner child and all of my own mothering right back up to the surface,” she says. “A lot of women say that when they’ve had babies they’ve said to their own mums ‘Thank you so much!’ because they have this revelation of what their mother’s sacrificed for them. And I guess I had that in a different way.”