9. Steely DanGaucho

I liked Steely Dan as a kid, then much later I got back into them thanks to [producer and Bark Psychosis co-founder] Graham Sutton, who I’ve worked with on a lot of our albums, including our new album. I think it’s maybe the only record we’ve listened to together whilst making music. Gaucho is the one I love more than anything else. The classic thing people always say is that the music’s doing one thing and the lyrics are doing another, which is a great trick. I do always like that in songs, when they’re going in different directions.

At a certain point in my life, I probably would have detested Steely Dan, but you hear something again, and realise you’re hearing new things in it. Maybe you just need to be exposed to a certain number of hours of it per day. They have definitely got a reputation as audiophile music, which is everything I’ve ever wanted to reject. But you have to keep looking. It’s like a magic eye – eventually you convince yourself you can see something else and it’s not just a scramble of noise. It’s quite nice to change your mind, prove yourself wrong and disrupt your tastes in that way.