In the magazine October 2012

Featuring The Killers, Bat For Lashes, Tame Impala, Paul Banks, Tall Ships and more.

There’s only a handful of bands who can leave it four years between albums, and come back assured of a number one record. After a couple of years complete hiatus, and a few solo projects, The Killers comeback was never a certainty exactly, but we’re definitely not going to complain, we’ve slapped them right flat bang on the cover; because love them or loathe them, that’s where they belong.

Elsewhere, with her enthralling new record ‘The Haunted Man’ spinning on our stereo, we interrupted Natasha Khan’s Bestival to get the lowdown on exactly how her mum reacted to THAT album cover, and picked Amanda Palmer’s head about pissing off people with her rather novel approach to funding her band. Tall Ships have told us their hopes and fears on the verge of the release of their debut, and Tame Impala explaining why they’ve ditched the guitar and run away with a syth for new record, Lonerism.

Oh, and did we mention that we have the complete lowdown from this year’s Reading Festival, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead taking pride of place in this month’s Back Story, and Field Music filling us in on what being nominated for the Mercury Music Prize means to them. Summer may be gone, but from where we’re sitting, autumn’s looking pretty darn fine indeed.