Jack Savoretti: The man who sings to strangers...and Kylie

When asked if that is intentional, he lets out a full-body laugh, deeply amused.

It’s intentional to an extent, he admits, but more through accident after he noticed the initial trend, and only since then has become a concentrated trait whenever he arrives at a new record.

“That’s kind of something that I’ve just stuck to,” he acknowledges, amused. “I remember once reading about some artist who did the same thing.

“All their titles were similar, they had something connecting all the albums. I just want something that at the end of all this, whatever this may be, that connects them all together.”

Does it link them together as a collective body, by repeating such a similar naming process?

“I guess it’s a bit like a last name. I want them to all feel like part of the same family.

“The actual title (for this one) came about because it was something I overheard my daughter saying to her friends.

“She said that her father travels the world singing to strangers and I just thought the was great.

“It’s a very simplified but very accurate definition of what I do.”

The quote Singing to Strangers indeed lends itself well to the title of a record that brings up half-a-dozen in his career so far.

Released this month, it marks something of a slight artistic change for the 35-year-old singer-songwriter in that he already had a crystalline picture of where his work was headed before laying down a single note.

“This was the first album I’ve ever made where I had a really clear idea of what I wanted to do even before putting pen to paper and writing the first song,” he adds, when discussing his work with producer Cam Blackwood on the record.

“I knew exactly what I wanted it to sound like and there was only one guy for the job.

“Cam and I have worked previously and we’ve become sort of brothers. There’s been a real click creatively.

“We like enthusiasm over perfection, we prefer to just enjoy it rather than pull our hair out.

“We don’t believe there’s necessarily a right way to make music; we just like to push ourselves and make it fun.”

After initially penning the album, Savoretti invited his band to London to “play around, let them sort of understand the vibe we were going for” before the whole unit decamped to Rome for recording.

“We locked ourselves in a studio for ten days, a studio that used to belong to Ennio Morricone.

“It has numerous Oscars to its name and some of the most amazing soundtracks have come out of there. It’s just got something magic in the walls.

“It was like another member of the band, the studio, it was like the twelfth man on the pitch as they say in football. It all came together like that.”

New lead single Candlelight has handed him his biggest airplay hit to date and it remains the most resonant song on record for him too.

“I wanted it to be the first single, because it really highlights what I was trying to do.

“It’s filled with a romantic atmosphere; there’s a lot of love songs that are missing that element and I just wanted to bring it back, since it is not always present these days.