Things often happen by chance for A.A. Williams. It’s why today she’s talking about a new album, rather than touring. An album that, 12 months ago, wasn’t even an idea. At the start of lockdown last year, she’d just minted one of the year’s finest records in her stunning Forever Blue debut, an album of fragile darkness and classy noir that underscored the London singer-songwriter’s growing reputation as one of the country’s finest new artists. But as things quickly went south for anything but staying in, an unexpected new thread came along. What started as a by-request covers idea became A Thing, and A Thing became her exceptional new record, Songs From Isolation. “I am the kind of person who, when faced with uncertainty – or maybe not the best kind of mental state – wi...
