"Making music is one of your best chances in life to be honest," Thea Gilmore says of the title. "Writing songs is about telling your truths. But the way marketing has gone there's an assumption that people who take the trouble to buy music can have the wool pulled over their eyes, that they can be sold anything and, as long as the story behind the act is sensational enough, they'll keep coming back for more.

"I don't buy into that. As a listener I can hear dishonesty, when people aren't really living what they're singing about. But there are those that will always kick against that. There are a lot of Liejackers out there."

Subject of many a superlative since her debut album, the British muso described as "the best wordsmith of her generation", bounced back after two very difficult years in her life.

Before the release of her Harpo's Ghost record, Thea had been diagnosed with depression. During that time she had split with her previous record label and, temporarily, with her long term partner. Prior to Liejacker, she parted company with her manager of 10 years, split with her new and biggest record label yet after one album - and gave birth to her first child.

Not surprisingly, perhaps, Liejacker sees Thea at her most direct.

"So many people just wait for the fluff to appear in your music as soon as you so much as whisper 'pregnancy' and I never really could figure out why. But the concept of 'home' and what it really means is a recurring theme in my music.

"But for all the recording oddities, I was making music that was gritty and genuine.

"The new material was so personal, it told a new story and I wasn't even sure at first whether I wanted the world to hear that story in quite such direct terms … but the words kept appearing."

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