His worldview shaped by teen years listening to both Nirvana and Linkin Park as well as hip-hop trailblazers such as the OVO Sound scene in Canada, James’ sonic vision imagines a place where hip-hop and rock are perfectly intertwined. “No-one has really done it in rock where they’ve stripped it down to a purely rap set up, like where Playboi Carti or Travis Scott just have a guitarist on stage with them, but doing it in a way that’s rock, it’s heavy, it’s metal. It’s about trying to do something new, something that hasn’t been done before, or not done in my mind the way that I think it should be done.”

It was with that sense of adventure that James got down to work on The Fall Pt 1. It was made in a studio he set up in his mum’s shed – he moved back home after relapsing in a bid to get on the straight and narrow again. “I wanted to get well and change how the situation was going,” he says. Kid Brunswick has recently came back from his wild set at Rock For The People Festival in Prague.

We’ll get to the hiatus later – first let’s hone in on the here and now to Kid Brunswick’s first project since his acclaimed XFOREVER and Stained releases in 2021. Everything on The Fall Pt 1 is imbued with James’ desire to push things further than he’s done on any of his previous releases. “It’s not as clear-cut as Prescription Kid or 4AM,” he says, referring to his pair of 2020 singles, “I wanted to write something that felt like part of an actual album. I need to put out stuff that makes me feel something. I don’t want to be boxed into a genre, I want to make what I want to make.”