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Isolation is nothing new for Fenne Lily - in fact, she's written an album of songs all about it. InchIt's kind of like writing a letter, and leaving it in a book that you know you'll get out when you're sad - like a message to yourself in the future,Inch she says, referring to BREACH, her Dead Oceans debut she wrote during a period of self-enforced isolation pre-COVID. It's an expansive, diaristic, frequently sardonic record that deals with the mess and the catharsis of entering your 20s and finding peace while being alone. InchI think this record is proof that I can be emotionally stable, even if right now I feel a little bit up and down,Inch says Fenne. InchThere's the ability to find clarity in that. It's sobering, weirdly.Inch Fenne was born in London and moved to Dorset as a toddler, where she grew up in the picturesque English countryside. She was a Inchfree range kid,Inch as she calls it, after her parents took her out of school for a period at the age of seven. Over the following year, they taught her while the family travelled Europe in a live-in bus. Even after she returned to traditional school at 9, her home education never ended, extending to music. Her mother gifted Fenne with her old record collection, through which she discovered her love for T-Rex and the Velvet Underground and Nico. Soon after she fell for the strange genius of PJ Harvey and came to worship Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell, and the richly crafted worlds of Feist, which inspired Fenne to pick up a guitar. It's that journey to find peace inside herself that underpins the whole of Fenne's second album. It's title, BREACH, occurred to Fenne after deep conversations with her mum about her birth, during which she was breech, or upside down in the womb. The slippery double-sidedness of the word - which, spelled with an InchAInch, means to Inchbreak throughInch - drew her in. InchThat feels like wh
