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The album changes pace so fast and races through so many influences it’s the best proof so far of Carthy’s magpie tendencies - ‘ooh, glittery Mariachi horns. Ooh, big band. Ooh, four part barbershop harmonies. And I’ve got my eye on that dub beat sitting over there.’

Carthy has dabbled in different musical pots for years, so it’s become a bit of pot luck of genres to open a new album, whether it will open with something pure and trad, or that deep dub beat she had her eye on a moment ago. Dreams of breathing underwater follows in the tradition of surprise and ‘Follow the dollar’ is a rocky a number as she’s written, although it’s by far the weakest track an album of unarguable strength: of songwriting, of life-force in the arrangements and in production.

The fiddle singer has ramped up the theatricality knob full, as though her recent Bellowhead experiences have reinvigorated her and yet again expanded her horizons all culminating in the glorious musichall glitzy production of ‘Oranges and Seasalt’.

And that’s what makes Dreams of breathing underwater so impressive an album - it’s stretches confidently through it’s breadth of influence and instead of tripping in and out of novelty — which is something that has come through on previous albums (for example in the sometimes clumsy use of drum and bass). This is still over the top and experimental but also deep and exciting.

Dreams of breathing underwater is released on Topic Records.