FOLLOWING on from the release of her third studio album Little Machines, Lights is set to headline King Tut’s in Glasgow.

At 27, the Canadian musician is no longer the preternaturally talented kid who signed her first deal at 15 and during the writing and recording of her latest record – which was out in September – she and husband Beau Bokan (of L.A. metalcore outfit Blessthefall) were expecting their first child.

Nevertheless, there’s a contagious, youthful vitality to the music that goes hand in hand with its themes of nostalgia and yearning for an escape to simpler times.

She said: “I feel like when you learn too much about the industry and what people expect, it throws you off your game a bit.

“So I had to strip it back down. I started reading other artists’ stories – Patti Smith and Kate Bush, where they got their inspiration. And what I started going back to was really nostalgic content. I relapsed into being a kid again, in some ways.” She also wrestled with the age-old questions artists ask themselves: What purpose do I serve in the world of music? What can I offer people?

She said: “So I started writing about things that mattered to me, and those things were youth and this awesome naïveté that I used to have. I didn’t write anything that was trying to be something, which felt really good.” After all the hard labour that went into Little Machines, Lights is now pleased to find that becoming a mother has rejuvenated her creativity and feels she wound up making what she thinks it the best thing she’s ever done.

Catch her at the Glasgow venue on Tuesday 27 January.