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Mercury prize 2014

February 2018

  • Young Fathers (l-r): Kayus Bankole, Graham Hastings and Alloysious Massaquoi.

    Young Fathers: ‘Everybody has a dark side. We’re all complicit…’

    Award-winning Edinburgh hip-hop trio Young Fathers on ‘bad men’, shadow-boxing with portraits, and their new album, Cocoa Sugar

April 2015

  • Friends are electric: Brian Eno with William Doyle (AKA. East India Youth) at his West London studio.

    Brian Eno meets East India Youth: ‘I find songs such a tired format’

    One is electronica’s elder statesman, the other a Mercury-nominated rising star. We brought them together to discuss technology, beauty and bananas
  • Young Fathers photographed in London last December for the Observer New Review

    Young Fathers: White Men Are Black Men too review – passion and protest

    Young Fathers follow up their Mercury prize-winning debut with a genre-defying album of playfulness and politics
  • Young Fathers

    Young Fathers: ‘We’re putting something out there that needs to be said’

    After winning the 2014 Mercury music prize, the controversial Edinburgh trio are back on the attack and tackling race, identity and euphoric pop on their new album. We joined them on a soul-searching tour of South Africa

October 2014

  • Infomania
    Mercury Prize, everything you need to know - infographic

  • Kate Tempest

    A life in ...
    Kate Tempest: 'Rapping changed my life'

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