The push and pull

The newly reconfigured band throw open the doors on an expansive sixth album. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by Quinton Winter.

The chart-topping musician’s bestselling memoir lit a new creative flame within her. She tells Shannon Mahanty what’s coming next

WHILE MOST DUAL-GUITAR bands tend to have designated roles in terms of what kind of sonic space their members occupy, Momma six-stringers Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten enjoy being unrestricted,

WINDINGS NO STRAIGHT ROAD TAKES YOU THERE ...

Having pushed MODERN NATURE as far out into the free-folk ether as they could go, Jack Cooper has brought it right back to first principles with The Heat Warps – an album of succinct and distinctly Beatlesque songcraft, recorded live with a classic four-piece band, that speaks directly to our turbulent times. “We’re not hiding behind anything,” the newly energised frontman tells Sam Richards

Kate Bush ’s fifth album combines hit singles with a seven-song conceptual suite, all expressing the unmistakable style of one of progressive music’s most uncompromising visionaries. To mark 40 years of inspiration, The Anchoress, Within Temptation’s Sharon den Adel, Auri’s Johanna Kurkela, The Blackheart Orchestra’s Chrissy Mostyn and Exploring Birdsong’s Lynsey Ward celebrate the enduring magic and influence of Hounds Of Love .