The Freaked Out Issue
Unrelenting ambition: An interview with Yeasayer
A career of audacious left turns — After 11 years together, surviving hardship and high expectations, pop eccentrics Yeasayer have learned how to navigate the fears and insecurities inherent in making art.
Written by: Cian Traynor
Huck unleashes a terrifying creature upon Shoreditch
The False Beast has risen — Illustrator Toby Melville-Brown kicks off our 71a Gallery window artist takeover project with False Beast.
Written by: Alex King
How music transformed Malawi prisoners into Grammy-winning artists
Sounds of the Zomba Prison Project — A notorious Malawi prison has produced an unlikely success: a critically acclaimed album brimming with the power to heal.
Written by: Adam White
How Lucia Griggi chased deadly waves to become one of the world’s best surf photographers
Into the deep — Waves as big as tower blocks and the beach patriarchy could not stop surf photographer Lucia Griggi from becoming one of the best in the world.
Written by: Nina Zeitman
Stanley Donwood’s nuclear weapons installation will blow your mind
This is your four minute warning — Radiohead and Glastonbury artist Stanley’s Downwood’s new project, the bomb, is an immersive multimedia installation designed to wake us up to the continued threat of nuclear annihilation.
Written by: Alex King
Is Trump manipulating fears to mobilise the masses?
Fear and loathing in the United States — With violence erupting at Trump rallies across the United States, writer Joe Donnelly considers what may be at the root of people's hatred, the fears that Donald Trump is tapping into to create tension, disunity and malcontent.
Written by: Joe Donnelly