I realised over the course of making an album that I work better with artists than I do with hardcore songwriters,” says Gabrielle Aplin speaking to Music Week about making her second LP, Light Up The Dark, released via Parlophone on Friday, September 18.

“And even though I have [worked with songwriters] and there have been some great relationships, I find it really hard to go into a studio with someone I don’t know to try bash out a song ...