MULTI-instrumentalist Fictonian, whose debut album Desire Lines was released last autumn, is the alter ego of Herefordshire-born musician Glen Roberts.

Four singles, Little Blue Book, Full Circle Influence, Double Negative and Make It Be ours have been released to widespread acclaim, gaining plaudits from the likes of Line of Best Fit, NME (Buzz of The Week) and Q Magazine. In recent months Fictonian has completed live dates with Nick Mulvey, which included a show at London’s Roundhouse, as well as his own very special sold-out London headline show at St Pancras Old Church.

Fictonian deliberately evades definition, with the music just one part of this bold, multi-faceted project encompassing music, sound recording, video, art, animation and photography. Glen Roberts was determined to create a body of work which reflects a mind as visual as it is musical. “Fictonian is a specific state of mind within me," he says. "There are certain types of songs that only come from this mindset I call my "fictonian" state. It means a person who spends more time in their head than reality, which I think everyone can connect to at times. This project represents that side of me."

It was when Glen escaped from the hustle of London life and found solitude in rural Herefordshire that he first realised the particular qualities that came from this kind of creative isolation. "These aren’t songs that would have come if I’d sat down at a piano and decided to write a pop song, they come from a very specific place in my mind when I was in the countryside on my own for a long time drumming up musical ideas.

It's a concept album about desire. I wrote it in between Herefordshire and London and the Fictonian project is representative of a certain style of thinking.

"It represents a part of me and that's why I called it Fictonian. It's a made-up name for someone who spends more time in their head than in the real world."

Learn more about Fictonian and listen at fictonian.com