‘‘AS you get older it becomes rarer that records become indispensable in your collection,” says John Grant, speaking to us from his home in, her 2001 album, and it quickly became one of my favourite records. It’s the delivery, the voice: she’s a poet. And she’s making super compelling records into her eighties. That’s definitely something I aspire to. People like me don’t really have a retirement plan. I can see how travelling might become difficult, but I’d love to keep working like she has.”
