“it is optimistic and empowering.”

Deep inside his London studio, BRIAN ENO is busy bringing “playful” experimental strategies to the studio graft – as his new collaborative albums with conceptual artist Beatie Wolfe attest. But, over pastries, an uncharacteristically digressive Eno finds time to discuss Scott Walker’s voice, communal living with Harmonia, mid-‘60s ‘happenings’ and his deep enthusiasm to create anew. “I’m sorry to be so shamelessly enthusiastic about my work,” he tells Tom Pinnock

Ruth Clinton and Cormac MacDiarmada : “There was an extra level of heavy”

Reeling from illness and uncertain times, Skunk Anansie ’s future hung in the balance. But with new album The Painful Truth, they “stood on top of the cliff, held hands and jumped into the clouds”.

Experimental groop switch on again with their first new album in 15 years. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by Hawaii.

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In the living room of his garden flat in North London, Glenn Gregory has come to a decision. Sat at his coffee table, Martyn Ware with his feet up on a recliner next to him, Heaven 17’s singer leans i