Liz Harris went through extremes when she went to Murmansk for an artistic residency at the height of the Arctic summer. She talked with our man in San Francisco, Ned Raggett about the resultant new album and project. Portrait by JJ Harris
As Liz Harris releases her astonishing new Grouper album Ruins, she guides us through her musical life from the ghosts of her early years via echoing former industrial spaces in the Pacific Northwest to risk-taking and sleep deprivation. Portrait by Jason Bokros
Since 2005, Liz Harris' work as Grouper has explored the states between states. With her new collaborative album as Mirrorring recently released through Kranky, Rory Gibb spoke to her about in-between zones, sleep states and last year's remarkable double album A I A
During the last two years, Loula Yorke has released six albums and a mixtape and she's only just getting started. Joe Muggs talks to the modular synthesist about a background in raving and activism, and why it's time to start thinking of herself as an artist
On new record Humanise, HAAi confronts a world where our relationships are increasingly controlled by algorithms, and finds a counterforce in the joy of real-life connection. She speaks to Karly Quadros about the volatility of technology, the record's found family of collaborators and the power of the human voice