Andrew Cranston

The more ambient side of classical music, you know, Debussy.

But saying that, recently I've gone through a big Shostakovich phase.

Whoa.

You know, where it's like the weight of his voice, you know, the seriousness, but also the sort of sheer dread and terror in it, you know, somehow goes with our times.

Well, that's it.

I have to come out of it and put the Beatles on or something.

Abbey Road.

I probably listen to the White Album once a week.

Do you?

And it's a key album for me.

And the fact it's kind of quite scrappy and fragmentary and there's so many different sort of registers that the Beatles allowed themselves, you know, like...

Every mood.

And then in a way, I felt that about making art that, you know, I want almost a range of... You want oble de oble de and happiness is a warm gun.

Absolutely.

Something that would, in a way, cover every feeling and thought.

Absolutely.

The sequence, whoever did that really knew what they were doing.

I mean, it kind of sort of has got a...

I don't know, just a haunting but really beautiful perfection to it.

Yeah.