Merrill Garbus aka Tune-Yards: 'Playing live is like going into battle'

The American singer-songwriter is shy offstage, fierce onstage, and every bit as intense as her lyrics suggestMerrill Garbus describes herself as "a very apologetic person", but the music she makes – raucous, bold, bawdy – is the very antithesis of an apology. Performing under the name Tune-Yards, she and her band are unmissable. Rhythms collide and saxophones skronk wildly, but the real virtuosity is in Garbus's voice: she can croon, she can yodel, she can roar, and she can also do the kind...

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