The image of a ship moving forward works with her new album Barn Raising which explores feelings of loneliness, listlessness and isolation. The banjo featured on her album Hibernation Nation has been replaced with a backing band.

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"The song Dolly Cassette takes Simms-Karp back to her childhood listening to the same, sad Dolly Parton songs.

"That song is about depression...Something like depression is sort of omnipresent. You could be going about your day and thinking, 'Oh this is going so well.'  But it's still really all around the edges," she said.

"In this case I really liked the idea of it being a shifting shadow that was just always around, following you." s