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Laniakea’s debut album, a collaboration between Grumbling Fur’s Daniel O’Sullivan and Zu’s Massimo Pupillo, is devoted to the artist Ian Johnstone, whose untimely passing also saw the end of the London refuge where the LP was recorded. They tell Russell Cuzner how the life and location the record laments created an ascendant work at once both elegiac and joyous