The so-called “people’s tenor” from 1927, singing about losing his lover. An 80 year old woman reminiscing about post-war rationing. An amateur astronomer explaining an equinox. A woman on the phone in a call centre in Hull. Recorded impulsively – and sometimes secretly – on mobile phones, sampled from vinyl, or old films, it was characters such as these that originally inspired the music of grasscut. The music itself, sitting somewhere on the little travelled road between electro pop and modern classical, came quickly.