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This week, we kick off with the show everyone’s talking about right now: Richard Gaad’s Baby Reindeer. The dark Netflix drama is being praised for its nuanced characters, also attracting criticism for causing speculation about the real life people who inspired them.

We also take on The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology. Taylor’s 31 track odyssey sparks debate about the merits and the cringe-factor of her lyricism, Antonoff vs Dessner and how corporate greed is depriving the 2020s of classic albums. So does Taylor’s chart-domination make her the biggest gangster in music right now? Drake thinks so. For anyone who’s not up-to-date with the whole Drake vs Kendrick, Cole, Rocky, Ross, Future, Metro and Ye situation, we conveniently break that down for your water cooler conversations. 

Oh, and for the all the Ewan Mitchell fans out there who follow us – we share a little insight into how the House of the Dragon star was on set for his photo shoot with THE FACE.

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Well, that went quick, didn’t it? THE FACE relaunched digitally in April 2019, which makes us five years old this month. To celebrate, we revisit some of our favourite stories from the last half decade, reminiscing about the highs, lows and Tyler the Creator’s missing wig (which almost scuppered our first cover shoot). We’re proud to be here and grateful to our listeners for their continuing support. If you have a message you want to share with us, maybe even an album, film or artist you’d like us to review, drop us an email on podcast@theface.com and we’ll get back to you on the programme.

This week, we chat Alessandro Michele’s colourful history at Gucci and how he might invigorate Valentino with his maximalist vision. We also assess Camila Cabello’s polarising Playboi Carti collab I Luv It, Beyoncé’s Americana odyssey and London buzz band Mary in the Junkyard’s unusual antics (they recently held a funeral for a yeti!?).

For the film segment, we discuss the Kristen Stewart-starring romantic thriller Love Lies Bleeding, the Emma Stone-produced A24 horror I Saw The TV Glow and the star-studded Cinema4Gaza fundraiser. The journalist Tom Faber calls in to talk about his article on how the Israel-Gaza conflict has affected Berlin’s creative communities.

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The Face Podcast is your weekly cultural digest – rounding up the stories that you should care about in film, fashion and music.

This week, we tuck into the film trailers and teasers that everyone’s taking about, including Kinds of Kindness – Yorgos Lanthimos’ follow-up to Poor Things – as well as the Sydney Sweeney horror Immaculate, Dune 2 and Luca Guadagnino’s Zendaya-starring Tennis drama Challengers.

We also comb through our Tracks of the Week, sparking chat about Tyla’s commercially-palatable amapiano-R&B fusion, the lore of Two Shell, the enduring influence of Yung Lean and Drain Gang and the viral moment sparked by the gleefully obnoxious Von Duch remix.

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On this week’s special music episode, we comb through the key releases of Q1. Face contributor Shaad D’Souza joins us to discuss Lil Nas X’s unsatisfying stunts, Ice Spice’s scatalogical single, Charli XCX in Brat mode and Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter era. We also reluctantly acknowledge the merits of Vultures 1, praise Kim Gordon’s eternal cool and weigh up Dua Lipa’s prospects as a Glasto headliner. To show the underground some love, we recommend records by Evil Giane, Astrid Sonne, Amen Dunes and Fantasy of a Broken Heart.

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The Face Podcast is your weekly cultural digest – rounding up the stories that you should care about in fashion, film and music.

This week, we start by reviewing the killer Oscars looks worn by the likes of Billie Eilish, Carey Mulligan, Hunter Schafer and – despite the wardrobe malfunction – Emma Stone. We talk about the misquoting of Jonathan Glazer’s speech on the Israel-Gaza war and how political Belfast rap group Kneecap started a domino effect of artists dropping out of SXSW due to its sponsorship from the US Military. Having profiled Pamela Anderson on The Face’s site this week, we praise her new era of self-love, and we assess how Ariana Grande’s relationship drama affects the listening experience of her new album Eternal Sunshine.If you like what you hear, please feel free to like and subscribe.