Click. If you’d like, I can also create a full imagined tracklist, liner note excerpts, or a short screenplay version of that record shop scene.

But the real story happened during the promotional tour. At a small acoustic set in a London record shop, a young woman in the front row held up a sign: “ ‘Bedshaped’ saved my life when I was 14. Thank you. ”

“That’s the one,” Tom said. “The heart of it. Before we tried to sound like anyone else.”