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One of the most powerful tracks on the album is the huge, swirling soundscape ‘Kingdom Of Ends’, where you sound like a disembodied gospel house diva. What inspired that song?

RM: Mark Fisher. It was a phrase coined by the German philosopher Kant, and Mark Fisher used it a lot. I bought an anthology of his writing as K-Punk last year and found a review of Moloko. It was amazing to read, I wasn’t expecting it. He had a fascination with glam rock and Roxy Music and JG Ballard and Cronenberg and all the cool shit I love as well. Then threading it through with the end of desire, the end of capitalism – he throws all this into the review. It’s like in Ballard’s Crash where the heroine’s got to have the callipers, she’s got to have the car crash. Fisher described my performance as sexual, but sexual for myself. I’m not pushed or prodded out onto the stage, there’s no tap dancing, none of that. A bit like those weird Roxy Music girls, it’s all signs and signals and bots and hats and feathers and flounces, all part of an ecosystem of desire. There’s no division between natural and unnatural, pushing natural as far as it can go into the unnatural. I’m a JG Ballard sexpot!