It was the death of his father that set a 21-year-old Al Lewis on the path to becoming a singer-songwriter. "It was a pivotal moment," Lewis remembers. Yet it would be years before he could bring himself to put the great loss of his life into song. Indeed, it took Lewis a decade-and-a-half to even begin processing it.

Across these songs, Lewis initiates conversations with the father he lost too young, searching for the answers that elude him, and "seeking advice from the ghost of you", as he sings in 'Where Do I Go From Here'. He imagines the mindset of his newly divorced Dad as he started his life over again; he recognises the elements of his father he sees in himself, and in the children who never got to meet their grandfather. Singing with a voice rich and emotive, composed of chord changes and melodies that are resonant, aching but always climbing towards resolution and uplift, the result is Lewis's most personal, most powerful album yet. 

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