A little absence can be a powerful thing. If you imagine the Top 40 to be a constant party where everyone’s having a great time all the time, apart from the occasional sobbing diva on the stairs and angry shouting men fighting in the street outside, this song doesn’t really fit...

I love it when musicians try really, really hard to make music which angular and awkward and gawky and strange, and they put their heart and soul into taking routes which are not only not well trodden, but which might not actually exist at all. I love this because it’s a contrary...