Singer Lucy Rose couldn't lift her baby after collapsing

Rose is telling me this story over a Zoom call from Spain, where she's taking a holiday to gather her strength before the release of her exquisite fifth album, This Ain't The Way You Go Out, on Friday.

The 34-year-old entered the public eye as a backing vocalist for Bombay Bicycle Club, before striking out as a solo artist with albums like Work It Out and Like I Used To, straddling the worlds of acoustic folk and laid-back, adult pop.

One of the first artists to take advantage of Spotify's listener data, she noticed she was big in Latin America and, in 2016, travelled there alone, asking fans to book her gigs while staying in their spare rooms.

Solace came from a Facebook support group and the Royal Osteoporosis Society, who put Rose in touch with a volunteer called Sarah Driver, who'd had the same condition.

Inspired by the old school hip-hop and instrumental funk she listened to as her body healed, it's full of brushed breakbeats and choppy chord sequences that allow her beguiling vocals to soar.

The music was developed over a series of jam sessions in her house, then recorded in a two-and-a-half-day blast - "all freeform, no click track" - at Paul Weller's studio in Surrey.