With the release of their formidable second album Foundations Of Burden imminent, Dean Brown talks to the Arkansas metal crew about their development since debut Sorrow And Extinction and why doom has the capacity for emotional catharsis
“I think this is best record in the world,” underground Czech legend Bruno Ferrari tells Wyndham Wallace. “Because I hear only my record. I fuck on all other bands.” Contains NSFW video clips. All photographs by the author
Ahead of a short UK tour, Jane Weaver tells John Freeman how her stellar sixth solo album, The Silver Globe, was inspired by a Polish sci-fi movie and her desire to remove self-imposed shackles, resulting in the finest record of her 20-year career
Legendary Latin-jazz percussionist SHEILA E gives Simon Price a ticking-off for asking too many Prince questions. And tells him about her new album, her autobiography, her charity work, and her relationship the Almighty. Oh, and also about Prince. (A bit)
Some say that Leslie Winer aka © invented trip hop in 1990 with her album, Witch. Now she’s back with a retrospective compilation and Wyndham Wallace meets the reclusive former supermodel. Main picture by Sébastien Chou
Gwen Siôn speaks to Jude Rogers about how her love of dubstep raves in tunnels became a creative practice of turning the slate of North West Wales into music, blending field recordings with choral song, and how landscape art is political