“I HATE jolly music,” says Brett Anderson, an avid plunderer of the pale rider’s record collection. “I find happy music depressing. All the best songs are about the murkier sides of life.” He makes a natural frontman, then, for Death Songbook, an orchestral covers project focusing on the “morbidly beautiful and poignantly sombre”, instigated by renowned conductor Charles Hazlewood.
Around the start of lockdown 2020,
