Penelope Three is the third and final instalment of the Australian-born Brighton-based Penelope Trappes trilogy. She completes her ambitious and other-worldly triptych with an album of healing, on which she looks to release herself from fear and into love, evoked in Penelopes signature ambient gothic dreamlands that are equal parts shoegaze pop and surrealist soundscapes.

The powerful yet fragile lead single, Nervous, blossoms like a flower in time lapse, swelling with reverb and decaying into a dense sound world. Despite formal vocal training in opera and jazz when she was younger, it wasnt until after her daughter was born that Penelope began writing her own music. Now in her 40s, she says coming into music later has been eye opening, and she laments the fact that women past 30 are too often discarded by the music industry: Creativity doesnt go away when yo