“The only solution is to put a positive spin on morbid thoughts, turn things upside down and say: I may be nothing I may be a ghost. And there’s no doubt I eventually will be.”That tension, between things slipping and being “present”, is ingrained in the album’s organic sound. Where YHF created a sense of dispersal, Ghost’s interiority is evident in the way its gospel piano and expressively mangled guitars hint at something unsaid And yes, that is Tweedy cutting loose on the guitar “The thinking there was not to think,” he says. And I think it reaches a better conclusion than Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

It’s saying, ‘Well, you aren’t what you think and it’s okay not to know, so come to terms with being present in your life and accept that it’s changing’.”The album’s shape suggests as much, opening on a low-key note, then picking up pace and closing with “The Late Greats”, a cheery number whose lyrics suggest a reconciliation with things slipping by It ties in with the album’s title, too. There’s a lot about identity on there that became clearer after rehab. The experience didn’t change the record, but it made me understand it more.”Where YHF was a series of, in Tweedy’s words, “reflections on trying to reach out”, Ghost is a reaction against that. “The record is about thinking, ‘Okay, maybe the problem is trying to reach in’,” Tweedy nods.

“Maybe I can’t know what I’m trying to say until I figure out who I am. “Your ego makes it into a shape you think people can understand, but the raw material comes from a part of you that really knows yourself.”When I went through the rehab process I realised that this record was way ahead of me. That’s people who have a mental illness that precedes or is related to an addiction, a chemical dependency. They treat both at the same time, because a lot of the time people are self-medicating for underlying problems that haven’t been dealt with, which is what I was doing. I spent about a month in the hospital and it was a slow, painful process, but, y’know, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. I definitely feel more balanced and comfortable in my skin than I have in 10 years.”The finer details remain Tweedy’s own business, but it’s hard not to see something of his experience in the context of Ghost.