For her new album, Esmé Patterson has written songs for women – Ramona, Billie Jean, Alison – who have long been silent. For everyone who's ever loved a song, then felt a sinking in their heart as they listened to its lyrics properly, this one's for you
Pairing searing avant-garde electronics with multilingual meditations on the refugee crisis, HARRGA constitute a new, urgent kind of political project. In their first ever interview, Alastair Shuttleworth speaks to the duo about the roles of language, disorientation and terror in their debut album