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With a flurry of hits and a flair for tapping into the cultural zeitgeist, the globetrotting singer has achieved the status of international icon. In-between stops on her whirlwind tour, she reflects on literature, letting love in and the transformative power of live performance

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LUCIA LEYFIELD IS NOT AN ARTIST prone to grand statements. Her work speaks in subtle tones: sketchbook pages filled with weathered doorways, overheard conversations or fragments of wild gardens. A let

Swedish proggers Gaupa have gone from five members to four, but it isn’t holding them back. With new mini-album Fyr the group have started afresh – and as guitarist David Rosberg and bassist Erik Sävström tell Prog , change isn’t always a bad thing.

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The grand parade of lifeless packaging? Far from it, as this much-delayed blockbuster reissue of one of prog’s most fascinating and frustrating albums finally proves.