It’s been a busy few years for Deafheaven. The San Francisco blackgaze heavyweights travelled tens of thousands of miles in support of 2021’s mesmeric fifth album Infinite Granite, cropping up alongside everyone from Knocked Loose to Interpol and at festivals as varied as Outbreak, ArcTanGent and the Edinburgh Fringe. They’ve celebrated 10 years of 2013 masterpiece Sunbather and signed a new record deal with mega-label Roadrunner. Then they went into the studio with producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen to record sixth album Lonely People With Power. Catching up with frontman George Clarke at his home in Los Angeles – where he’s recently seen friends lose their homes to the out-of-control wildfires – there is hell of a lot about which to talk. How, after 15 years tog...