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Laura Snapes

Baker's Dozen

Feel What You Don’t Know: Mabe Fratti’s Favourite Albums

Following new album Sentir Que No Sabes and ahead of her guest curation at this year’s Le Guess Who?, Mabe Fratti takes Laura Snapes through thirteen favourite records spanning her Central American adolescence, cult dream pop and French post-punk Zeligs
Black Sky Thinking

The Wheal Thing: Aphex Twin’s Alternative Cornish Language

From the myth of the methane princess to a reflection of Cornwall's rich history of radiocommunications, his home county permeates the music of Richard D James far more than as a cultural backwater, says Laura Snapes
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We Are Fucked & Going To Die: Everything Everything Interviewed

Everything Everything are back with a new album that explores depression and a new found seriousness. Laura Snapes is impressed
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Perfect Pitch: The National Discuss The Long Count

Ahead of tonight's performance of The Long Count at London's Barbican centre, The National's Aaron Dessner talks to Laura Snapes about baseball and Mayan myths
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The Greater Times: Electrelane Discuss Their Return

As Electrelane prepare to play what might be their last gig at XOYO tonight, Mia Clarke talks to Laura Snapes about their "emotional" return
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Tha Callahan IV – Bill Talks Apocalypse

Bill Callahan has become even harder to pin down since putting Smog to bed. Laura Snapes gets to grips with the lauded singer songwriter
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People Don’t Have Convictions Any More: Marnie Stern interviewed

All hail Marnie Stern! Laura Snapes talks to the finger tapping rocker about music coming in phases and being misconstrued over comments about Best Coast
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Harvard Commissions & Refuting Pretension: Clogs Interviewed

Laura Snapes talks to modern composer Padma Newsome about _The Creatures In The Garden Of Lady Walton_, horticulture and pretension
Books

A Q&A With Bill Callahan & Extract From Letters To Emma Bowlcut

Laura Snapes talks to Bill Callahan (aka Smog) about his new tome _Letters To Emma Bowlcut_, as well as serving up a juicy extract
Track-by-Track

Autolux: Greg Edwards’ Track By Track Preview Of Transit Transit

Greg from Autolux takes us on a track by track guide through his band's second album...
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Locked In The Vacuum: Greg Edwards Of Autolux Interviewed

The Quietus met Greg Edwards to talk about over-enthusiastic experimentalism, being cast asunder in the middle of Sony BMG, and the influential osmosis of Los Angeles
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Monáe Talks: Janelle Keeps The Famous Flame Of James Brown Alive

It's a woman's, woman's, woman's world... Janelle Monáe talks to Laura Snapes about working with Erykah Badu and Big Boi... in the third person of course
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Hissing Obama, Are You The Destroyer? Micah P. Hinson Interviewed

Laura Snapes talks to Micah P. Hinson about proposing on stage, racism in comic books, and his contempt for Barack Obama
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I Want To Live Forever: Nina Nastasia Interviewed

Laura Snapes joins Nina Nastasia for a whiskey to discuss stage fright, _Mad Men_ and Ricky Gervais

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Loose Wool And Hot Tar: The National Interviewed

Laura Snapes met Matt Berninger and Aaron Dessner to talk in-studio strife, making a scrappier record than Boxer, and “summer lovin’ torture parties” in decrepit Grey Gardens-style mansions.
News

The National Reveal High Violet Collaborators

Justin Vernon, Sufjan Stevens and Richard Reed Parry guest
Reviews

White Hinterland

Kairos

Reviews

Charlotte Gainsbourg

IRM

News

Watch: New Muse Video

The promo clip for 'Resistance'
News

Caribou To Release New Album

Swim out in April
News

Tracklisting For Pavement Best Of Announced

Find out if you guessed its contents correctly
News

Watch: New Chris Morris Trailer Here

The first clip from Chris Morris' terrorist-baiting Four Lions

News

Arthur’s Landing Announce Debut UK Show

Exclusive - Arthur's Landing announce gig to coincide with new biography
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Oh No Ono Talk Crazy Music And Psychiatric Hospitals

With their second album recorded in a disused German hospital, Oh No Ono have come on exponentially since their last album says Laura Snapes. Main picture taken by Simon Birk
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Sufjan Stevens Interview: Expressway Yourself

Laura Snapes talks to Sufjan Stevens about his latest musical exploration of the American landscape
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Geoff Barrow Interview: Invada Festival, Bristol & Being Too Old For Dubstep

Portishead and BEAK> man Geoff Barrow speaks to Laura Snapes about this weekend's Invada Invasion festival, and why the label "was set up to spend money and lose friends"

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