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Angus and Julia Stone: ‘This record feels like coming full circle – we made a lot of it in the living room’

The dreamy folk-pop duo have reunited for new album Cape Forestier. The siblings talk about their childhood and the joy of coming back together

‘But happy!’ Photograph: Joel Pratley/The GuardianIt’s a drizzly day when I meet Angus and Julia Stone and the pair arrive dressed in all black, carrying matching oversized umbrellas. “It just really felt fun to play [together] again.” Those shows led to a conversation about what music they’d each been working on, plans to get together in the studio Angus built in his home at Murwillumbah in northern NSW, and, very quickly, a whole new album of songs about, well, “love”. She had been helping their mum move into a place in the Apple Isle when she “met a Tasmanian man” and decided she’d relocate there too – carving out a very different existence for someone who’d previously been spending much of her time amid the bright lights of New York.

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