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FROM ISSUE 26 ONWARDS FORTE IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE IT WILL BE HANDLING THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE FACT MAGAZINE, A FREE BI MONTHLY 7” SIZED MAGAZINE THAT ACTUALLY COVERS MUSIC PEOPLE LIKE. 
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COVER: EXCLUSIVELY DESIGNED BY JAMIE HEWLETT
INTERVIEWS: GANG GANG DANCE / JAMIE HEWLETT / ANNIE / FRIENDLY FIRES / NO AGE We ponder the meaning of life with 21st Century musical mavericks Gang Gang Dance, as they weigh in with possibly the best album of the year.
Elsewhere, we quiz Norwegian pop princess Annie, St Albans-born post-punk-pop trio Friendly Fires, LA noise merchants No Age and outsider pop icon Jamie Hewlett, as he returns with Gorillaz co-conspirator Damon Albarn with new project Monkey.
NEW TALENT: HIGH PLACES / PONYTAIL / DRUMS OF DEATH / FONTAN The new wave are more imaginative and impressively ambitious than ever before - from American boy-girl duo High Places to Japanese psych-noise merchants Ponytail to one-man dancefloor destroyer Drums of Death and dreamy cosmic pop adventurers Fontan. And in FACT: 27 we've got 'em all covered.
FEATURES: BRIAN ENO / TOUCH / MATTER / 20 BEST AMERICAN HARDCORE As he returns with a new album with David Byrne, we track down Brian Eno to music, art and religion. We also bring you an in-depth label feature on the ever-impressive Touch audio-visual label, get behind the scenes at Matter - the soon-to-open new club from Fabric, and trace the history of American Hardcore, a vital inspiration to a wave of today's new bands, with a '20 best' feature written by renowned US scribe Philip Sherburne.
ALBUM REVIEWS In our newly expanded and extended reviews section our crack squad of scribes give you the low-down on new long players by TV On The Radio, Cool Kids, Pivot, Lindstrom, Fucked Up, Morgan Geist, Roots Manuva, Friendly Fires, Heartbreak, Stereolab, Pole and Shed.
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