Take a look at the cover of Albion and you’ll see a bearded, robed traveller – Harp’s Tim Smith – on a bleak, snow-dappled moor, guitar held at his waist in place of a sword, an ill-advised and dangerous quest no doubt weighing heavy on his mind. It’s a brilliant, and silly, image, and yet it says something about the long journey Smith has been on since he left Midlake, the band he fronted and ostensibly led, back in 2012. KEITH RICHARDS IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – HAVE A COPY SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR HOME...
The former Go-Between on the records that lit his candle: “Everything changed at that moment” KEITH RICHARDS IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – HAVE A COPY SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR HOME ROXY MUSIC Advertisement Stranded ISLAND, 1973 I was 16 when this came out and I’d lived a fairly sheltered life, so it felt like a very exotic record. It’s also a great collection of songs: “Song For Europe”, “Serenade” and “Mother Of Pearl”, which is one of my all-time favourites. There’s still a lingering sense of experimentation from the first two albums – Eno’s ghost...
I’ve been putting this off for a few weeks, but as our Review Of The Year issue is about to come off sale, I figured now’s a good moment to post this very personal list of my favourite albums of 2023. KEITH RICHARDS IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – HAVE A COPY SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR HOME I’ve added in Bandcamp links to each entry – despite all the worrying news coming out from there in recent weeks, I think it’s still the best place to get money direct to the artists. Where the artist is...
Denny Laine, the co-founder of Wings and The Moody Blues, has died aged 79. KEITH RICHARDS IS ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – HAVE A COPY SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR HOME On Instagram, his wife Elizabeth Hines said Laine died on Tuesday morning after a long battle with Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD). Advertisement “My darling husband passed away peacefully early this morning. I was at his bedside, holding his hand as I played his favorite Christmas songs for him. He’s been singing Christmas songs the past few weeks and I continued to play Christmas songs while he’s...
HAVE A COPY SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR HOME IN ‘The Titanic Sails At Dawn’, his 1976 polemic for the NME, Mick Farren harangued the previous decade’s rock’n’roll trailblazers who by now, he believed, had become part of the very establishment they had once rebelled against. “Did we ever expect to see The Rolling Stones on News At Ten,” railed Farren, “just like they were at the Badminton Horse Trials or the Chelsea Flower Show?” The Stones, of course, have weathered such barbs with ease down the decades. Increasingly, it seems as they push ever onwards, they have become their...
HAVE A COPY SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR HOME Keith Richards, The Doors, Bruce Springsteen, The Birthday Party, Kurt Vile, Pentangle, Sunny War, our essential 2024 Album Preview and more all feature in Uncut‘s January 2024 issue, in UK shops from December 8 or available to buy online now. Advertisement All print copies come with a free CD – Come On, 15 Tracks Of The Month’s Best Music including Ty Segall, Steve Gunn & Bridget St John, Gruff Rhys, Jerry David DeCicca, Office Dog, Brown Horse, ØXN, Future Islands, Nailah Hunter and Johnny Dowd! INSIDE THIS MONTH’S UNCUT KEITH RICHARDS:...
50 years to the week of its original release, MPL and UMe will release an expanded 50th anniversary edition of Paul McCartney & Wings’ classic Band On The Run album on February 2, 2024. The single LP vinyl edition was cut at half speed using a high-resolution transfer of the original master tapes from 1973 by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, London. It mirrors the US tracklist which features the song “Helen Wheels”, and also includes a Linda McCartney Polaroid poster. The 2-LP vinyl edition – which includes two Linda McCartney Polaroid posters – features the original US...
Nowadays, so much of culture is available on demand that it is like being delivered art from a firehose. So it was an unusual move of Peter Gabriel to drip feed us his latest album – his first original studio LP in two decades – online over the course of 2023; releasing just a single track every four weeks. Each came complete with artwork commissioned from a designated artist – including Ai Weiwei, Cornelia Parker, Annette Messager and Olafur Eliasson. Each came in two (very slightly different) mixes: a “dark side” mix by Tchad Blake and a “bright side”...
Half a century ago, Chris Difford stuck a ‘guitarist wanted’ ad in the window of his local shop in South-East London. There was no band, and only one person replied. But that person was Glenn Tilbrook, and thus began one of the great British songwriting partnerships, encompassing 15 studio albums to date – more if you count the music they released together outside the Squeeze banner – and numerous classic singles, including three Top 10 hits. Order the latest issue of UNCUT now, featuring Bob Dylan and our bumper Review Of 2023 Advertisement Next autumn, Squeeze will celebrate their...
Lou Reed’s final solo album Hudson River Wind Meditations is to be reissued by Light In The Attic in partnership with Laurie Anderson and The Lou Reed Archive on January 12. Order the latest issue of UNCUT now, featuring Bob Dylan and our bumper Review Of 2023 Originally released in 2007, the ambient compositions were initially created for Reed’s personal use, to accompany spoken-word meditations that his acupuncturist recorded for him. Over time, they transformed into music for Reed’s Tai Chi and yoga practices. Eventually, he crafted them into an album with producer Hal Willner. Advertisement “I first composed...
