Going up!

THE AMERICAN DREAM is a simple one: if you work hard and are dedicated, eventually good things come your way. This is the myth we tell ourselves, whether you are a plumber, a lawyer or a band member.

The genre-agnostic mastermind behind Zeal & Ardor gives us a tour of his quirky record collection

With 28 albums’ worth of songs to choose from, “hopefully there will be some surprises”.

The human experience is hard. One of life’s pleasures for Eureka Machines is “having these little tunes, at gigs, that give people a couple of hours to get out of their heads”.

The Fateful Symmetry MUTE 7/10

Cradle Of Filth’s corpsepainted frontman on his skate punk roots, exploding basketballs, and 11th-century ghosts