In Alistair Fruish's groundbreaking one-sentence novel, author John Higgs finds – rather than the cold work of a computerised neural network one might be expecting – a piece of work that is testament to, both, the future of artistic originality and the human element of those works
Resisting ideological efforts to brand the countryside as a place of safe, reassuring conservativism, argues Joe Kennedy, a host of art and music in 2013 powerfully emphasised the uncanny and traumatic aspects of rural Britain. Photograph by Luke Turner.
Against all parental advice, Ned Raggett finds communing with Marissa Nadler's Strangers to be an acutely rewarding experience, nodding to the canon of Americana, but stepping out alone into the spotlight of a much broader and conflicted contemporary music landscape