Songwriter Kitt Philippa in conversation with Tony Clayton-Lea

For years, Kitt Philippa blazed a promising exploratory trail through classical, electronic and pop music. The fruits of that experimentation have now arrived, with the songwriter’s debut album Human

Kitt Philippa: ‘I have a specific, if sometimes spacious, idea of how I imagine something sounding’ Pic: Christopher Barr

‘Probably it is possible, but it mightn’t be thoroughly accurate,” is Kitt Philippa’s beautifully droll, and numerically exact, answer to the question of whether it’s possible to describe yourself in ten words or less.

Philippa is all about accuracy, getting things right. Ask them (Philippa identifies as non-binary and prefers to use gender-neutral pronouns; their preferred personal name is KP) another question about the precise nature of their music and they will agree ...