Music Interview: The Hanging Stars

London country-psych-folk-rock band The Hanging Stars are in a good place – and I’m not just talking about the traditional East End pub that we’ve agreed to meet in. The five-piece – singer and guitarist Richard Olson, bassist Sam Ferman, drummer Paulie Cobra, Patrick Ralla on guitars, keys and vocals and pedal steel guitarist Joe Harvey-Whyte – have just released their third album, A New Kind Of Sky, and it’s their best, most cohesive and sonically adventurous record to date. From the hypnotic opening track, the shimmering, magical and other-wordly ‘Choir of Criers’, which features a Marxophone – a type …