John Darnielle's The Mountain Goats recently released their latest studio album Transcendental Youth. Erin Lyndal Martin sat with with Darnielle to discuss piano tuning, his pro-choice activism and the tensions between fiction and non-fiction in his work
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