On his first two albums, the former Beta Band frontman confronted depression and social discord, respectively.
On Meet The Humans, he's letting a little light in. So-called because of his move from the isolation of rural Scotland to the creative locus of Brighton, Meet The Humans finds Mason discarding his default setting of claustrophobia and looking outward.
Everything feels bigger, brighter and breezier – such as on the soaring choruses of Alive and Like Water.
Meanwhile, the declaration that "the universe is mine" on Planet Sizes sounds positively carefree.
Everything is relative, of course – there's also exquisite heartbreak (Hardly Go Through), existential angst (Through My Window), and spooked acid house (Words In My Head) – but Meet The Humans sounds like the light at the end of the tunnel.
