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CHANGED THE like, 'F — k, Iwish Ididn't wake WORLD AND IT'LL up'... Irealised it was just NEVER BE THE myself — it's a chemical SAME." imbalance in my brain. Some days I'll be very down and out, "LIL PEEP FOREVER." but you won't be able to tell, 's Pete Wentz really, because Idon't express that side of myself on social "HE HAD SUCH A media. That's the side of myself BRIGHT FUTURE... HE that Iexpress through music. WAS FEARLESS AND That's my channel for letting all UNFAZED." RiFF RAFF Ian McKellen as Gandalf in The Two Towers

Tolkien heads Amazon is working with JRR Sauron in The Tolkien's estate to bring Lord Of Fellowship Of The Rings to TV. An anthology The Ring • series like Fargo, perhaps? Hope so. Here are three Tolkien stories the new show could -or should -focus on. Let's get geeky

Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn in The Two h • / Towers 2 SAURON VS CELEBRIMBOR AND THE ELVES In the red corner: Sauron, long before he was publicly known as the big baddie of Middle-earth — at this time he went by the name of Annatar or 'Lord of Gifts', and he 1 YOUNG ARAGORN was 'friends' with elves, dwarves and men. When we meet Aragorn in Lord Of The In the blue corner: elf-lord Celebrimbor, 3 THE CHILDREN Rings, he's already 87. As a member of grandson of Fëanor and friend of the OF HURIN adwindling race of Men called the dwarves in Khazad-clüm. When Sauron A recently published Tolkien book. It's far Dúnedain, he grows taller, is better at arrives in Eregion (west of Mona), he feigns darker than other Tolkien material, with fighting and lives far longer than the Men of benevolence and teaches Celebrimbor to something like the tone of Beowulf, and it Gondor or Rohan. Anyway: in his 87 years craft rings of power — seven for the dwarf takes place in Tolkien's First Age. before Lord Of The Rings, he'd done plenty lords and nine for the kings of men. In This epic tale follows the children of a of stuff. He grew up in Rivendell with Elrond secret, Celebrimbor also crafts three for powerful hero called Húrin, but particularly

under a pseudonym, Estel; he was only told the elves, which are kept separate from the exploits of his son Turin. When Húrin is ALAMY about his royal ancestry aged 20, which is Saurons corrupting influence. Sauron captured by the most evil being in when he also met his future wife, Arwen. He crafts the One Ring and tries to dominate existence, Morgoth, Turin is sent by his

soon went into the wilds to live with owners of all the Rings of Power, but is mother to be fostered by the elves of FEATURES, Dúnedain, and aged 25 became friends furious to discover both the existence of the Doriath. Unbeknown to him, his mother REX with the wizard Gandalf. He began keeping elvish rings and his inability to control them. gives birth to a daughter months later. Túrin an eye on the Shire under the moniker With the elves now aware of Saurons true has plenty of adventures — living in exile

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It's this period that fans reckon the series fails, and is later forced to retreat to Mordor. she is, and when they find out they FF might focus on. Would it make good TV, though? both kill themselves. It's really cheery. Would it make good TV, though? Quintessential LOTR vibes with avillain we Would it make good TV, though? Sure, people love a bit of Aragorn. already love to hate, so yeah. It'd be a curveball choice, but it'd be epic. 10 RIZE PRESENTS

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HUMANZ A hypothetical question informed '' during its 2016 recording sessions. For the animated band's fifth album, and 511INIM Jamie Hewlett asked contributors from Vince spent four hours Staples to Grace Jones to imagine a night ad-libbing her lines for 'Charger'. To choose the right where "everything you believed in was turned order for her lines, Damon on its head". The unsurprisingly nightmarish Albarn covered the studio result is this strangely prophetic soundtrack for floor with pieces of paper Trump's America — but the buoyant optimism of containing the lyrics, and put them into order using closer We Got The Power' suggests there's the fragments. reason to ho BARTLEET Pop went the on their fifth album, a AY deceptively perky release that showcases frontwoman ' struggles with mental health. Sure, tracks like 'Hard Times', o 'Fake Happy' and 'Told You So' might sound 2 like an explosion in a 1980s power-pop and

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release since the return of drummer LVVAYS BASSETT (who left in 2010), and the departure of bass NTISOCIALITES player , meant it was all change in Honing the crystalline melodies and lyrical bite JORDAN the house of Paramore —yet the result is a band of their debut, the Canadian janglers returned not only refreshed, but refreshingly honest. with this "fantasy breakup arc". On Your Type', singer Molly Rankin draws blood — "You're an 0 COOPER. and I'm AB" —while 'Plimsoll Punks' finds her raging, "You're the seashell in my sandal that's

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VINCE STAPLES "This is my Afrofuturism," Vince Staples said of 'Big Fish Theory' THE 00Z before its release. The vocally Only Archy Marshall can combine straight-edge 24-year-old's second 16 ska, rock'n'roll, sentimental ballads album is ahulking, paranoid beast and mystical poems into the same featuring experimental producers magic potion. The 23-year-old's and as well as Bon second album ' finds Iver's , and its guest Marshall just about keeping a lid on stars include Damon Albarn and his ferocious imagination. Inspired . Dense and avant by a break-up and spanning 19 garde, 'Big Fish Theory' is full of tracks, it's an often miserable good questions, such as "How I'm record that threatens to outstay its supposed to have agood time welcome, but there's a magnetic when death and destruction's all appeal to his tormented tales. Isee?" and "Where the fuck is my Grammy?" 511i'PIGIFJE Last year Staples reviewed a Kentucky chicken shop called Royals Hot Chicken. "If you love your life and you love freedom," he wrote, "then you must visit."

THE NATIONAL This year The National stuck with what they know —grand, swelling, glorious doom — ramping up the TORMZY atmos to almost boastful levels on ANG SIGNS & PRAYER their seventh, wondrous album. is a mercurial, complex Never knowingly shying away from igure and nowhere is that more ennui, frontman pparent than on his acclaimed plunges himself headfirst into nd commercially massive debut. middle-aged misery, with the It's half massive grime bangers hushed 'Nobody Else Will Be —see the Imperial Death March of a There' beginning the mournful, 'Cold' and the barbed clapbacks • 12-song procession that includes that comprise Mr Skeng' —and the equally chirpy 'Day IDie' and LEONARD half woozy gospel-influenced -dabbling 'Guilty Party'. COHEN tracks such as 'Blinded By Your 'Sleep Well Beast' sees the band 111] Songs Of 5111118M Grace, Pt. 1', on which he delivers experimenting more than usual, Stormzy got stuck in the asincere dedication to God or The Canadian miserablist with the thrashing 'Turtleneck' set out his stall in his 1967 women's toilets at the MTV alover. No wonder the album went owing adebt to Pixies rather than EMA Awards earlier debut, a majestically morose gold in just two weeks; in Stormzy the usual Leonard this month. record that's half a century we got us a man who can do both. old but still feels fresh. Cohen-shaped suspects. • • • 23 YESTERDAY'S GONE ST VINCENT Ben Coyle-Larner kicked off 2017 with as much grace and aplomb as Gyrating well away from the his hero Eric Cantona with the angularity of her fourth album, this release of his devastating debut. glam-pop confection's title track 'Yesterday's Gone' is a beautiful, has St Vincent yelling, "I can't turn emotional record, but it's also off what turns me on". Annie home to high-end bangers such as Clark's raw look at the high life the thumping No CD' and smoky —fame, pills, surgery, heartbreak Besettrae 'Ain't Nothing Changed'. A poem —sees her tearing at old ground THE ISLE OF ARRAN written and read by his mum on with a career-peak vocal (`Young The album's opening track is 'Sun Of Jean' makes for a highlight Lover') and moments of stunning as powerful as it is beautiful, with atwist on this Mercury- clout: "How can anybody have you featuring asweet soul sample from the 1969 gospel track nominated gem. British hip-hop and lose you," she demands, "and 'The Lord Will Make A Way'. is in very safe hands indeed. not lose their minds too?"

LIAM GALLAGHER AS YOU WERE 51FA'NIMIÉ We all expected Liam's debut solo 'As You Were' had the highest album is do well, but not this well. first week vinyl sales in the UK for 20 years. Outselling the rest of the UK's Top Twenty! Madness. 10 albums combined on its release in October, As You Were' proves that Liam still has just as much clout as he did when Oasis were at the peak of their powers. He wasn't just coasting by on reputation either: this is athoroughly decent record, featuring anthems with massive singalong choruses such as 'Bold', set-starting big 'uns with gospel choirs Mall Of Glass') and gentle weepies such as 'Paper Crown'. Nice one, brother.

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‘1,1 lCO "to SOUNOSYSIEM COMMON SENSE AMERICAN In 2015, J Hus was hospitalised 5 following a gang-related incident. DREAM In 2016, he found himself behind CTRL bars for a weapons charge. SZA's long-awaited debut was well Fortunately, 'Common Sense' LCD worth the wait. After songwriting manages to channel the east SOUNDSYSTEM stints for Beyoncé and , Londoner's recent struggles into AMERICAN DREAM • the Top Dawg signee released a positive, vibrant statement of d• pç It's the classic story: band breaks an R&B record that is soulful, intent. The looming shadow of life AVELINO up, gets back together five years sex-positive and so intimate it often on is never far, but on No Bulls**t later and releases a seminal, A bold and SZA is baring her soul to colourful and fully charged singles career-defining album rather than uncompromising you on a girls' night in. The languid, 'Bouff Daddy' and 'Spirit', J Hus mixtape from London's some cash-cow dross... Oh, wait lush 'Drew Barrymore' is pure sounds like he's fled the past. fastest-rising grime talent. —that never happens. Unless relationship goals, as she coos, ou're LCD Soundsystem, who this "Somebody get the tacos / ummer put out their sublime Somebody spark the blunt /Let's ourth album, a grown-up club start the Narcos off at episode record with the heart and soul of one", while 'Prom' shows a deep an indie band behind it, as well as understanding of millennial pop. awhole lot of love for David Bowie. Don't take your eyes off her in 2018. From meditative opener 'Oh Baby' through to the squelchy -lite of Tonite', these aren't just songs for dancing —they are songs for living and songs for loving.

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