On their ambitious second album HMLTD imagine an England swallowed by a giant medieval worm, populated by spineless feudal lords and chivalric counter-revolutionaries. Yet it is all, they tell Patrick Clarke, about the personal
Nashville-via-Brooklyn musician Mackenzie Scott's second album Sprinter is a bracingly honest and diverse record, which moves from howling rock grind to fractured introspection in addressing themes of mortality and loss. On her recent stop in the UK, she traced its roots with Alex Robert Ross