The new issue of Q comes with an exclusive CD selected by Michael Kiwanuka. All Back To Michael’s presents the deep cuts that influenced his new classic album Kiwanuka. Inside the magazine, the London singer-songwriter tells Dorian Lynskey how he came to produce a stone-cold classic.

The Norwegian synth-pop star on how Grimes’ 2015 record helped shape her world.

Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. cite James Joyce and TS Elliot as the main influences on their fourth single. You can certainly hear it in frontman Grian Chatten’s surreal monologue here, delivered in a tar-thick accent over anxious sounding post punk styled guitars.

Aussie singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett backstage at Brixton Academy, London, before her show in November 2018. An outtake from Q394, taken by Alex Lake.

A report and interview from the trip-hop duo’s recent tour, which revisited and radically reinvented their shadowy 1998 masterpiece Mezzanine.