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Music
“It’s a snapshot of where I was at that moment” – Mac DeMarco’s new record is a magical search for home
Totally blown
Lo-fi horror and high emotion: introducing Manchester’s TTSSFU
Trailblazer
Lola Kirke’s new album is a companion piece to her introspective memoir
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
“It was this sonic conversation that happened very naturally” – Sharon Van Etten’s new record is a work of desert collaboration
Refresh and Reveal
Art
Talking to the stars of Ethan James Green’s Pirelli Calendar
Love and survival
“It’s an allegory for the world falling apart“ – Dua Saleh on their necessary new record
Pivot & Scrape
“I was having vivid nightmares” – Sophie Thatcher’s debut EP is dark and beautiful
Bon Bon
“It’s what we do, we go out” – Fcukers are reigniting New York’s nightlife
Diverse voices
Film+TV
Fancy Dance’s breakthrough star Isabel Deroy-Olson on the importance of celebrating Indigenous narratives
Make it, release it
Between Friends: the sibling duo soundtracking your relationship highs and lows
Little Rope
Sleater Kinney’s new album transcends heartbreak and tragedy
A Moment In Time
Fragments, Segments, Vestiges is a film installation exploring absence, loss, and the beauty within the mundane
“This album is actually the self”
Jonny Pierce’s incredible new record is one of hurt, joy, love, abuse, trauma, gentleness, isolation, transcendance
Loss For Words
“Please jump into my twisted world” – interpreting the instrumental new record by PAINT
Don’t Fade Out
Cut Worms’ shimmering new record journeys through time and space
Thought I Was Better Than You
Hip-hop beats and tales of childhood naughtiness: Baxter Dury on his new record
Desert rebirth
“It’s a recovery album” – how a trip to Mexico inspired Freddie Cowan’s redemptive solo debut
Internal Affairs
“I’m so nostalgic, to a fault” – Buzzy Lee’s sophomore record retraces moments of beauty and heartbreak
Make me famous
“Having a fine time in the middle of a decaying city” – the legendary Marguerite Van Cook tells stories from the 80s East Village art scene
Photo Ephemera
Cult auteur Bruce LaBruce takes us through his personal photography archive