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Tim Booth has lived in the United States for the past 10 years
Singer Tim Booth wants to make it clear that his band James' latest album, Living in Extraordinary Times, is not an album about Donald Trump.
Well, not entirely.
The opening track Hank makes no attempt to pretend it's anything other than a full-on musical assault on the Trump administration.
To the beat of a room-shaking, militaristic drum section, Booth sings about "white fascists in the White House", adding lines about the Black Lives Matter protests ("bend your knee and stand your ground") and the rather stark declaration "this president's a dangerous tool".
The United States president's shadow does loom over the band's 15th studio album, recorded under the guidance of Alt-J's Mercury Prize-winning producer Charlie Andrew.
But Booth says: "I limited the number of songs I wrote about Trump, but there are a few that are still probably influenced by him. We are in extraordinary times.
"Because I do see a lot of positives. He's a catalytic figure who's waking up a lot of people with Black Lives Matter gaining more impetus and the Florida high school kids standing up to the NRA, and women are definitely going: 'We're not having this any more.'"
As someone who has joint UK-US nationality and has lived in California for the past decade, Booth has strong opinions on the United States president.
The other political song is Heads, which includes the lyrics "It's just a fever of greed/Don't believe in the White American Dream/God bless inequality/The poor vote the rich to hammer nails in their feet".
The Bradford-born singer, who left the UK for his adopted homeland around the time Barack Obama began his presidency, insists the song is applicable to political and power imbalance anywhere in the world.
"The minute you get with wealthy powerful men, democracy goes out the window. Money buys you whatever you want in America," he says.
"We complained about the MPs' expenses, which were minimal really. But over there nearly every politician is receiving millions from wealthy individuals and corporations to help them get elected."
Booth insists thatdespite the lyrics "Fake news divides to conceal/History's rich get to keep whatever they stealHeads is actually positive in its outlook.
"The second half of that songs is 'Here's the dream, ivory tapestry, dovetailing empathy'. I also go on about Myceliummushrooms create this underground network that links vegetation.
"If a tree is lacking in minerals, through this underground root system, one tree will give the minerals to the other tree that is dying. It's a sharing system.
"So within that song that starts out quite aggressively addressing the status quo, it says 'Here's the dream, this is what we want where there's enough for everybody'.
"It's a very positive statement, so James are always, I think in the end, a hopeful band."
The new album also touches on the profoundly personal with the track Coming Home (Pt 2), which Tim says is an absent father's apology to his children and is a sequel of sorts to Come Home from James' seminal 1990 album Gold Mother.