For the past three years, Sycco, AKA vocalist and producer Sasha McLeod, has lived in a crumbling Brisbane sharehouse. Once, it was a grand address home to the former mayor Clem Jones; a feat of 70s architecture offering panoramic views of the city. Today, there are holes in the walls, rats in the ceilings and a resident crew of housemates who have become each other’s chosen family. Sycco’s debut album was born out of that scrappy sharehouse and the experiences she had there: first love, first heartbreak, and forming the friendships that sustained her through it all.