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Lives and how to live them

Brett Anderson and Mat Osman guide us through 30 years plus of catchy, dramatic alternative rock

ARCTANGENT FESTIVAL

Dracula-inspired gothic sludge with a surprisingly human heart

Welcome to the second of our special Review Of The Year joint interviews. Here, indie provocateur BAXTER DURY and Sleaford Mods’ splenetic frontman JASON WILLIAMSON turn their attentions to the landscape, musical or otherwise, of 2025. Stand by for a bleak, brash, honest and often humorous assessment of the year just gone. Their conclusions? “We’re just flogging this dead horse, aren’t we?” they tell Mark Beaumont