Listening to Gold Panda's Japan-inspired fourth studio album Good Luck And Do Your Best, Karl Smith finds not only a more sensitive, atmospheric reflection of the country's cultures than some in recent memory, but also a dream-like landscape that points toward a second source of inspiration
At the inaugural edition of the new weekender from Supersonic festival's organisers, Nancy Bennie witnesses an unexpectedly dancefloor-ready turn from Dinos Chapman, shirks a lifelong hatred of folk music and doffs a cap to the Library of Birmingham. Photographs courtesy of Katja Ogrin