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Touching Base With France’s Former First Lady: Carla Bruni Interviewed

Jeremy Allen interviews Carla Bruni in Paris about her new album French Touch, but politics is strictly interdict. “I wish good luck to Mr and Mrs Trump, I wish good luck to Mr and Mrs Macron, and I don’t care, do you understand?”

Summon The Clowns: Gentle Stranger Interviewed

Ahead of their Quietus Social show in support of Alexander Tucker, Eden Tizard speaks to Gentle Stranger about audience responses, the dialogue between a musician and non-musician approach, and their own post-clown ethos. Pictures by Daniel Gatenio

A Consumer, A Sociologist: Kim Gordon Interviewed

With Album Of The Year fever already in full gear, we look back at Kim Gordon's No Home Record, one of the standout LPs of 2019. Words: Anna Cafolla. Photographs: Natalia Mantini

There’s A Riot Going On: Steve Mason Interviewed

Colm McAuliffe talks to Steve Mason about his new album and civil unrest

Funnel Of Love: Mark E Smith Of The Fall Interviewed

'Av a bleedin' guess... John Doran talks to Mark E Smith about Your Future, Our Clutter, a firesome 2010, and The Fall's plans for the future

Ritual Music For The Accumulation Of Energy: Anji Cheung Interviewed

The transportive, ritualistic drones of London's Anji Cheung conjure up portals to uncanny other worlds, heavy with the thrill of the unknown. Ahead of her performance at Supernormal this weekend, she meets Jimmy Martin to discuss a fascination with the occult, and how Throbbing Gristle and Coil have inspired her music's trips into inner space

Acts Of Faith: An Interview With Thalia Zedek

With her latest record Six just released through Thrill Jockey, Thalia Zedek speaks to Nick Hutchings about immersing herself totally in music in recent years, last year's acclaimed album Via, and reanimating her Come project with Chris Brokaw

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Bonxies, Cattie-Faces & Moosiehaaks: An Interview With Erland Cooper

Erland Cooper talks to John Freeman about how his gorgeous debut album Solan Goose helped ease the intensity of city living by summoning the magical spirit of Orkney's bird life

Paint Something: Desperate Journalist Interviewed

The London purveyors of chiming, literate guitar-pop talk to Gary Kaill about drawing on a nerdish love of leftfield '80s indie, avoiding onstage shape-throwing and wedding sweeping sonics to an intimate lyrical dialogue