In the wake of Nightingales' new record The Awful Truth, the band's leader Robert Lloyd takes John Quin for a freewheeling ride through 13 significant tracks, from a boyhood love of Lulu and Lou Reed to later encounters with Faust and Freakwater
Jesca Hoop's new album The House That Jack Built was informed by the recent death of her father, but still finds room to be playful with both sound and lyrical concerns. She tells John Freeman about how it came together, touring with Peter Gabriel and the compulsion to keep creating