
Inside Arcade Fire’s hypnotic new album
FEATURES
- ARCADE FIRE
Win Butler takes Laura Snapes deep inside new album ‘Reflektor’ and explains how he and his band learned to loosen up and embrace new rhythms. - FLAMING LIPS & TAME IMPALA
Frontmen Wayne Coyne and Kevin Parker skin-up, sit down and talk Leonie Cooper through their psychedelic side project - CATE LE BON
The Neon Neon and Manics collaborator tells Jenny Stevens how themes of death and responsibility inspired her new record, ‘Mug Museum’. - FROM THE VAULT : KEITH RICHARDS 1978
35 years since Rolling Stone Keith Richards was charged with possession of 22 grams of heroin, we revisit NME’s in-depth reporting of the case
ALSO INSIDE THIS WEEK
- On the set of the new series of Fresh Meat. NME meets the cast, gets the lowdown on series 3 and talks to Gaz Coombes about the music he’s written
- Is Kanye’s god complex out of control? A real life priest has his say
- Sir Bradley Wiggings shares the soundtrack of his life
- In the studio with Warpaint
- Anatomy of an album: Beck ‘Mutations’
- Interviews with:
- Jake Bugg
- Savages
- Musical astronaut Chris Hadfield
- And a Radar column from Jagwar Ma
- Album Reviews:
- MIA
- Connan Mockasin
- Tinie Tempah
- Swearin’
- Kurt Vile
- Caught live:
- Wet Nuns
- Arctic Monkeys
- Wolf Alice
- Courtney Barnett
- SWN Festival
Read more at http://www.nme.com/magazine/issue/inside-arcade-fires-hypnotic-new-album#yKtHPDHsYrrMPQjl.99