The Watts Memorial To Heroic Self-Sacrifice is a hidden gem of London’s dark tourism scene. Tucked away in Postman’s Park, a stone’s throw from St. Paul’s Cathedral, it’s a wall bearing 54 plaques recounting tragic yet selfless deaths. The epitaphs hail 62 individuals - men, women and children as young as 12 - who gave up their lives trying to save others.
This is where Hammer had arranged to meet Conjurer guitarist/vocalist Brady Deeprose to discuss Páthos, the East Midlands quartet’s forthcoming second album. It would have made a suitably bleak backdrop for unpicking a dense, multi-faceted and much-anticipated collection that Brady has previously, and somewhat mischievously, described as a) “objectively, the best album anyone’s ever made” and b) “just more miserable songs”.
However, they say God laughs when men make plans, and in typical British fashion, it’s absolutely pissing it down at the appointed hour of our rendezvous. So, instead, we head to the nearest branch of Pret A Manger. This ends up becoming just as apt a setting. For while Conjurer - completed by vocalist/guitarist Dan Nightingale, bassist Conor Marshall and drummer Jan Krause - are justly acknowledged as
