Here’s what Benedict Cumberbatch has been listening to on Spotify recently

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Benedict Cumberbatch has revealed to NME what he has been listening to on Spotify recently, including an eclectic range of new and old music.The BAFTA-winning star of Doctor Strange and Sherlock is also known as a music lover, and in a new interview with NME’s Alex Flood, he has shared his most recently played tracks.Cumberbatch named Elbow’s new album ‘Audio Vertigo’ as a current favourite. “Guy is a friend and I love him to bits,” he said. “And that band is constantly having fun and reinventing himself.He also namechecked the Polish celloist Dobrawa Czocher and her 2023 release ‘Dreamscapes’. “It’s the most extraordinary use of the cello as a percussive instrument, and everything in between,” he explained. “She uses a loop pedal to create these beautiful, rich, cinematic sound textures, it’s a wonderful thing to bathe in.”The actor also discussed the process of creating playlists in order to get into the headspace of his characters. “It is a thing of, where is your head at with who this person is, how he dresses, how he moves, what he thinks.

It’s such an immediate language, music, it’s such a brilliant non-verbal way of understanding a character,” he said.He then grabbed his phone to flick through his recently played tracks on Spotify, which also included U2’s ‘Achtung Baby’ reissue, as well as Max Richter, Jon Hopkins, Blur, Nick Cave’s ‘Ghosteen’, Noah Kahan, Lo Fidelity Allstars and the album ‘Songs For A Boy’ by Guy Chambers and Cumberbatch’s wife Sophie Hunter.Cumberbatch is currently starring in Eric on Netflix, a miniseries written by Abi Morgan (Shame, Suffragette).