Bill Callahan interview: There’s an invisible world

American singer-songwriter Bill Callahan has a new record, 'Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest' (out this week), which the Quietus calls "supreme... He finds the cosmic in the straightforward and the straightforward in the cosmic, often within the same sentence. The record is as profound a meditation on the birth, death, love and loss". The album was made when Callahan's son was born, and his mother died, which made the background for the album and directed the subjects of songs: “There’s an invisible world, we are physical bodies here and we are rushing to get to work and do the little things we do every day", he says in tQ interview. "If life was all just surface things that are very apparent to us then we would have committed mass suicide. I think it’s important to recognise all these other stories, this other world that’s occurring from childhood. To have those interacting and recurring images, not just come up once and disappear, all of the things stay with us for our whole life. These things they keep changing. They are our parables for living.” Listen to the album at BandCamp.