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The Beach Boys’ Al Jardine My Life In Music

Read more in issue 303 of Uncut – available now for home delivery from our online store. THE KINGSTON TRIO STRING ALONG CAPITOL, 1960 I had already heard The Kingston Trio’s version of “The John B Sails” – the original title of “Sloop John B” – when String Along came out in 1960. It was their fifth album and the last one with original member Dave Guard. I just loved every song on it. At the time, nothing beat their folk sound and perfect harmonies. It’s still one of my all-time favourites and really takes me back to my...
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Black Midi Hellfire

For three young men in their early twenties, Black Midi have already covered a lot of musical ground. Their 2019 debut, Schlagenheim, embraced a twisted mutation of math-rock, jazz and post-punk, recalling Battles at their most discordant or a mutilated King Crimson. 2021’s Cavalcade was a more all-encompassing tonal affair; alongside the frenzied assaults was a softer, more melodic and often poignant side that showed they could veer into avant-folk territory as easily as they could pulverising noise-rock. They continue on this unpredictable route here, on their third album, seemingly on a crusade to sound like all genres yet...
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Cheri Knight American Rituals

Fish around for a minute or two googling “Cheri Knight” and you’ll soon come across a song of hers on YouTube called “Dar Glasgow”. It’s the opening track on her second solo album, 1998’s The Northeast Kingdom. The cover is a painting of Knight in a dress of green leaves holding a guitar in a vegetable field, alluding to her two passions, music and farming. The song is a rural gothic folk tale, spun out over the drone of a harmonium, which slowly pulls the listener in. That harmonium is played by Steve Earle, whose label E-Squared released the...
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Lera Lynn Something More Than Love

Lera Lynn isn’t prone to repeating herself. Having moved further away from her countryish beginnings with 2018’s duets album, Plays Well With Others, she followed up with the self-made, and self-explanatory, On My Own. Now she’s shifted into an entirely different dimension with Something More Than Love. Co-produced with her partner Todd Lombardo, it’s an often moving, sometimes troubled, meditation on the joys and trials of new parenthood. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut Lynn gave birth to their first son at the start of the pandemic. Adjusting to being a mother...
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Kate Bush Ultimate Music Guide

As she tops the charts in 2022 with her 1985 hit “Running Up That Hill”, which was featured prominently in Netflix’s Stranger Things, we celebrate the genius of Kate Bush with our Ultimate Music Guide. “I just know that something good is going to happen…” Buy a copy here!
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Lucy Clue’s Magnetic Summer Anthem Is A Must-Hear

“In Your Eyes” is here to sweep you off your feet! Lucy Clue is on the move with ecstatic, positive music, sharing her passion and energy with her audience. With some stunning soundscapes and urban-sounding percussion, the melody leads the way into the world of romance in which the artist tells us about her true feelings—ones that cannot be contained any longer. Influenced by the greats in the pop and hip-hop genres, Lucy Clue knows exactly how to make a crowd cheer. Curly hair, southern temperament and tattoos—you can’t not fall in love with this artist and her incredible...
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MJ Lenderman Boat Songs

Asheville, North Carolina, native MJ Lenderman inhabits a crucial nexus of the Southern underground. The singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist is a graduate of the local house-show scene, and of an important bygone venue called the Mothlight. He’s been releasing his own music since 2017, and is also a guitarist in the country-soaked alternative-rock band Wednesday, lead by his partner Karly Hartzman. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut While still only 23, Lenderman comes off more like a timeworn indie veteran than an eager newcomer. When a certain music website bestowed its coveted...
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Neil Young with Crazy Horse Toast

In 2000, Neil Young and Crazy Horse took up residence at Toast – a recording studio on San Francisco’s Mission Street. Awaiting overdue renovation, the district itself was in poor condition. The back door at Toast opened onto a view of derelict buildings; aside from a doughnut shop on the corner, their only neighbours were rats and the squatters. Inside Toast, the vibe was undetermined. As Young wrote in his memoir Special Deluxe, there were “some serious problems with my marriage” (to his then-wife Pegi). ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut Instead...
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Gwenno Tresor

“If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes,” said the French director Agnes Varda in 2009. Varda is one of many artists, musicians and filmmakers from around the world who inspired Tresor, the third album by the Cornish-speaking Welsh psychonaut Gwenno Saunders – and that quote is particularly beloved to a musician dedicated to mapping out the intersection of land, heritage, identity and potential. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut Like Gwenno’s last album, Le Kov, Tresor is written mostly in Cornish – a language she learned as an infant from her...
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Martin Courtney Magic Sign

It’s been seven years since Martin Courtney’s first solo album, the subtle delight of 2015’s Many Moons. Since then, he’s shepherded his group, Real Estate, through two more albums – In Mind (2017) and The Main Thing (2020) – and last year’s Half A Human EP. Change is incremental with a group like Real Estate, and the coordinates for the songs Courtney writes haven’t changed hugely over the 15-or-so years he’s been making music: while the production might be tighter, more robust, his melodies still sit as gently within the landscape of sound he sculpts as they did on the...
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