Now that Telepathe’s finally released unveiled some new material—one side of a single that’ll be available exclusively through Insound next month—we thought we’d revisit one of our favorite magazine features of all time: a completely random conversation between the Wu-Tang-obsessed duo and GZA. Here’s one pull quote, of which there were many: “There’s a fine line between genius and psycho. Don’t cross that line.”
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Photo: Ivan Jones
Words by Kim Taylor Bennett
Florence Welch doesn’t really do silence. But at the moment, she’s hushed, contemplating her recent Brit Award, the British equivalent of a Grammy. The win is an enviable accolade for any artist, but for Welch—who performs under the name Florence and the Machine—it’s quite surreal because the 22-year-old singer has only released three singles. Launched in 2008, the Critics’ Choice Award is appointed to an artist who industry bods predict will make it big in the upcoming year. Predictions came true this past year as winner Adele achieved both critical and commercial success. But essentially, the award is a prize for hype.
“It is very abstract: an award for something we think you might do well at?” Welch questions skeptically. “I sort of feel like someone who walked in the back door, someone who’s there by accident. I feel slightly out of place.”
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[Florence & the Machine photo by Ivan Jones]
We know, we know—the idea of diving into a digital magazine is still foreign to most of you. Hell, you might even equate it with something as stale as ‘perusing a PDF’. Not true, kids. And goddammit, we’re not willing to accept no as an answer this time; not when self-titled just unveiled a complete redesign that shifts our focus to massive, monitor-friendly photos and the kind of features you’ll never read on a regular Web site. Or in a ‘real’ magazine for that matter, since many of the good ones have fallen prey to the print industry’s ongoing money problems.
Here’s the breakdown this time around:
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