Norwegian songstress Farao appears as a delicate figure on stage, slightly startled by a Shacklewell Arms spilling out at the seams on a Tuesday as her dark, brooding folk sound has finds its audience.

Maybe it’s the cold nights drawing in, but Farao’s mesmerising, bleak sound is the sound of winter. It is the sound of staring out of the windows and seeing the glow of the world moving by your standstill life, and it’s perfect.

Farao is at her most bleak when accompanied by little more than a guitar, even when covering Queens of the Stone Age’s Go With The Flow, but for me it is when she is supported by a full band that her songs are the most powerful. Tell A Lie is one of my favourite songs this year, as Farao’s rich, accented voice sweeps above the droning synths and tick-tocking percussion.