It’s been six years since Sam Brookes emerged with his warmly-received debut Kairos and its follow-up, Black Feathers, is the product of a period of change and loss for the artist. Following the passing of his father, the breakdown of a relationship and the death of a close friend, the album that Brookes felt compelled to make next is, as you might expect, a reflective and soul-scouring affair - he calls it a “meditation on grief” - but remarkably there’s little about Black Feathers that feels maudlin or macabre.