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Chapter 1
Song Exploder: Hrishikesh Hirway
The idea of “Song Exploder” is that each week a band or artist talks you through how they wrote a particular song; it was dreamt up by LA-based music-lover Hrishikesh Hirway and is about to celebrate its 100th episode. Hirway speaks to Robert Bound about how it came to be.
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Chapter 2
Musical notes: Laura Snapes
How do you put into words what music does – or should or shouldn’t do – in an eloquent and accessible manner? Laura Snapes is a regular voice on Monocle 24 when we talk about music; she’s also critiqued it for “Pitchfork”, “The Guardian”, “Uncut” and plenty more besides. She tells us about her process for writing a review.
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