Time is at the centre of – it appears in percussive-forward mixes, complex arrangements and the clever blurring of genres. Where does 70s rock start and 00s disco yacht-pop end? Somewhere between 90s R&B, maybe? The lyrics conceptualise age, nostalgia, self and transience; tapping into modern culture’s existentialism. “It’s something I’ve thought about at different points in my life,” he says. “So it’s not really about time as a thing, but how we deal with it.” Deadlines are both Parker’s liberator and his enemy, but his self-aggregated pressure to create is everlasting. “I know that people want me to make music, whether it’s because they like my music or because it’s in my contract,” he says. “But at the end of the day, it comes down to my art. I want to make an album because that’s what gives me fulfilment in life.”