George van den Broek’s mercurial talent has long been the talk of contemporary music. An overnight sensation when 2016 debut E.P Harmless Melodies touched a nerve with a global audience of millennials, he signed a worldwide deal with Sony while most teenagers’ biggest challenge would be surviving Freshers’ Week.

Subsequent sonic excursions have seen him explore everything from sprawling pop fusion (Sony debut A Day In A Yellow Beat) to sci-fi conceptualism (2024’s Hotel Heaven) -complete with themed global tour.

His latest release as Yellow Days, ‘Rock And A Hard Place’, however, sees George — newly married and drug-free — returning to the influences which inspired him to start making music in his parents’ garden shed in Haslemere, Surrey, as a wide-eyed 16-year-old.