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25 Years On: Happy Mondays’ Yes Please! Revisited
Yes Please! is the runt of the Happy Mondays’ litter, an album more likely to turn up on lists of career-ending releases and studio disasters than on playlists and radio. But as Yes Please! approaches its 25th anniversary, could this least redeemable of albums be due a critical re-think? Ben Cardew pushes for a place in history for this unique work of ageing, regret and disaster
A Quietus Interview
Talking Tom Tom Club: Chris Frantz & Tina Weymouth Interviewed
As Tom Tom Club hit the UK, Stephen Dalton sits down for a fascinating chat about Talking Heads, their relationship with David Byrne, their creative and romantic relationship, and why working with the Happy Mondays was even more difficult than you might have thought
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Film
Because The Night: The Timeliness Of Chantal Akerman’s ‘Toute Une Nuit’
One of Chantal Akerman's lesser known works feels singularly important during times of global isolation. Toute Une Nuit telegraphs the importance of human connection over one finite period of time and now plays like a foggy memory, finds Patrick Preziosi
Film
Call Of The Wild: Inside ‘Wolfwalkers’, The Game-Changing Irish Animation
Cartoon Saloon have been making groundbreaking animated films for years – and with Wolfwalkers, they might just break the studio chokehold on the Oscars. Ian Wang meets directors Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart to find out how
