"Is this too personal? Is this giving away too much? But I lost my mystery as an artist a long time ago. I'm not gonna get that back, so I might as well just make brutally honest work." So says Nadine Shah in what is itself a brutally honest interview with the Guardian's Kate Hutchinson, ahead of the release of her new album Filthy Underneath.
It's heartening to read how Shah is escaping the shadow of addiction, depression and marriage breakdown. She's one of the most singular talents in British rock/pop, after all, as well as one of the most righteously outspoken musicians on everything from sexism and mental health to the injustices of streaming and the value of independent music criticism ("We're losing all our best writers because no one's getting paid for it").
Shah couldn't have staged a much more high-profile re-emergence than tour dates supporting Depeche Mode around Europe, and she's also on the bill for the inaugural Big City festival in Glasgow. It's curated by Mogwai (who evidently enjoyed the experience of putting together ATP line-ups), and as such features some fairly predictable names - Slowdive, bdrmm, Elisabeth Elektra and Sacred Paws - alongside Shah, Beak> and Michael Rother.
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