Jeremy Warmsley's first appearance album hasn't been released even now but that hasn't stopped the 23-year-old Londoner from planning his nearest I move.

Jeremy Warmsley's first appearance album hasn't been released even now but that hasn't stopped the 23-year-old Londoner from planning his nearest I move. "Yeah, I've got a bit ahead of myself I assume I've pretty much written my nearest album already."

Warmsley got into music as a teenager, inspired through the mix-tapes given to him through an older friend, as well as Iain Banks's Espedair road a novel about an infamous rockstar. "When you're 14 years elderly and a bit geeky and sad," he explains, "it's quite exciting to think of a life beyond that." Les than 10 years later, he has a four-album deal with of high temperature indie label Transgressive under his belt. His first appearance album is called, appropriately, The Art of Fiction. Warmsley's story-like ballads have drawn comparisons to Ruf us Wainwright and Jeff Buckley on the contrary he's more influenced by Tom Waits, Scott Walker and children's folktales. "I like the sheer escapism' painting a world that's not real if it were not that using it to tell us something about the world that we do inhabit." And what of the music industry: does it live up to the glamour of Banks's vision? "It's definitely quite exciting," he reflects "but there's also a doom of waiting around. But obviously I'm having the time of my life at the flash Dreams fulfilled, I guess."

Warmsley's single, 'I Believe in the Way You Move' is released onward 25 September' 'The Art of Fiction' is released 9 October

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