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“Just try to do something they like. Don’t spend your life doing work that makes you miserable. That’s no way to spend your life,” Dixie Stringfellow says.

Little Oblivions, is a statement of intent. Throughout her 2015 debut, Sprained Ankle, and its excellent follow-up, Turn Out The Lights, sparsity was the watchword. If you've ever been to one of her intimate live shows, you'll know this: alone on stage, she uses only a guitar, a keyboard and a loop pedal. It means that her heart-on-sleeve lyrics – which are forthright about addiction and depression – stand out above all else. Take her biggest hit, "Appointments", a heartbreaking self-doubt ballad whose stunning crescendo is achieved solely with a switch to a near-scream – the...