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The winner of the Best Writer, Specialist category, in 2022’s British Society of Magazine Editors Awards, our latest issue sees John Earls serve up our Paul Young No Parlez cover feature, catch up with James ahead of their Yummy LP release and oversee our new albums and reissues reviews sections.

Annie Zaleski is a writer and editor who’s contributed to NPR Music, Salon, Record Collector and The Guardian. She has also penned multiple books, including an extensive look at Duran Duran’s Rio for Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series. This issue, Annie delves into The Waterboys’ massive new boxset 1985 with Mike Scott and reviews yet another fantastic post-reunion effort from Ride.

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