Across a pair of EPs last year and now a new album, Luxury Problems, Manchester's Andy Stott has gradually been sinking techno and house deep into a quagmire of mud and dust. He speaks to Ryan Diduck about the desire to create "something really beautiful"
Wandering star Julie Campbell takes John Doran for a walk around the canal towpaths, vacant lots, Victorian mills and red light districts of Greater Manchester in order to explain the genesis of her new album, Hinterland