Power Trip's Manifest Decimation has just landed in the Quietus' list of favourite albums of 2013 so far. Toby Cook catches up with the band to discuss DIY culture, touring injuries that'll put your teeth on edge and just what on earth the French existentialists have to do with thrash metal
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