After You

Over a decade in the making, After You was produced in collaboration with Paul Epworth, Inflo and Alex Epton.

The album doesn't just draw on his musical journey of the past ten years, it brings in influences from the music he heard as a child. Loaded Gun has a pre-chorus that Lennon and McCartney would have liked to have written. As a child his brother would play him Jungle music. There are elements of that too. His dad ran acid house raves - that's in there. But perhaps, the most poignant track is Gemini. With nothing more than piano, vibraphone and drum beat, the words of Peñate's grandfather, the writer and artist Mervyn Peake, are read by his uncle Fabian.

If Peñate's ambition was to be able to make a sound that sounded like a feeling felt, and to be able to master studio production, and to be able to have longevity in his career, then it's safe to say that with After You, that ambition has been realised.