Liz Harris went through extremes when she went to Murmansk for an artistic residency at the height of the Arctic summer. She talked with our man in San Francisco, Ned Raggett about the resultant new album and project. Portrait by JJ Harris
As Liz Harris releases her astonishing new Grouper album Ruins, she guides us through her musical life from the ghosts of her early years via echoing former industrial spaces in the Pacific Northwest to risk-taking and sleep deprivation. Portrait by Jason Bokros
Since 2005, Liz Harris' work as Grouper has explored the states between states. With her new collaborative album as Mirrorring recently released through Kranky, Rory Gibb spoke to her about in-between zones, sleep states and last year's remarkable double album A I A
On superb new album Offshore, Nadeem Din-Gabisi speaks through a football kit clad alias to explore issues of belonging and identity as a second-generation immigrant in the shadow of empire. He tells Patrick Clarke about imagining a better future, the need to antagonise the far right and much, much more