A lot has happened in Karima Francis's life since she first ensnared listeners in 2009 with her debut album, The Author, and emotionally charged live shows. However, after a hiatus from the music scene, the singer-songwriter is back with new album The Remedy. Flood, who produced the album, was a key player in bringing The Remedy to life. Karima first met him after a Water Rats show in 2010, but the celebrations following the gig - involving, she says, hazily, "something to do with a CCTV camera and an ambulance being called because someone we were with was that drunk" - meant neither had an exactly precise memory of the encounter. When the pair met up again in 2011, it was with clearer heads and a much greater sense of focus and purpose. Karima came prepared, bearing the fruits of months of hard musical labour at home. "I went into my bedroom," she says, looking back at that period, "and demo'd the whole record there. And I gave those demos to Flood and he was like, 'Right, let's make that - just bigger and better.'" Another remark by Flood struck an even louder chord with Karima that day. She had first sung him the songs up close and personal, "playing to his face, just me and the acoustic guitar", and his response convinced her that she'd struck gold. "He just went, 'Why has no one ever stood you in a room and just recorded the songs around you? Okay, that's what we're going to do.'" The Remedy is the result of these recordings and features lead single "Glory Days".