Euphoric anthems on the slow death of love, when all you’ve got left in common is devotion to your dog. Sweeping dramas imagining the final resting place of great lost ideas. Defiant singalong bops proclaiming everything is fine when life feels anything but fine… Welcome to the passionate, vivid, faintly sinister, welcoming and above all utterly irresistible world of Coco And The Lost.

Few musicians are capable of presenting an alter-ego so fully formed from the outset. Fewer still manage to imbue their world with so many layers, where imperious grandeur, relatable dramas and big-hearted unstoppable joy are merged, often within the same song. And it’s hard to think of anyone else who then manages to wrap all this depth of emotion into a succession of earworms, every chorus making you want to delve further into a rich and rewarding landscape.

An artist bursting with ideas, it’s important to Coco And The Lost that she offers listeners a fully thought-through universe, where songs connect, where her concerts are the ultimate realisation of the characters peopling her stunning debut EP I’ve Got Nothing, John.

“I’ve always felt misunderstood,” admits Coco. “In music, I can tell the story I want to tell, how I feel about life. I want to build the Coco And The Lost universe, make it bigger the more my career progresses. On stage, I want people to be surrounded by the familiar, then twist it, to make it so it doesn’t quite belong. I want to build people’s sensory experiences at shows, to use animations, smells and textures to bring the music to life as much as possible.”

Such passion is typical of Coco And The Lost. She’ll happily discuss influences. There’s the lyrical insight of Phoebe Bridgers and Mitski; the wit of Pulp; the sonic attack of Wolf Alice; Kate Bush and Florence + The Machine’s otherworldly charisma. But one listen to the unsettling mood within Something’s Going On Here’s full-throttle pulse and the novelistic eye for detail of I’ve Got Nothing, John makes it clear that here is a musician only ever destined to be perfectly and uniquely herself, no matter how infectious her music.