Hit Singles
Marianne Faithfull Songs of Innocence And Experience, 1965-1995
Throughout her storied life, Marianne Faithfull has been in a tussle with her reputation. Sometimes it looks like a dance. Often, it is more like a fight. Though she’s now revered as an elder stateswoman and a valued collaborator – Warren Ellis is her latest pet – this compilation explores the first two acts of Faithfull’s career. ORDER NOW: Björk is on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut In the clichéd telling of it, Faithfull was manipulated and underestimated, if not exploited, during her pop career, before clambering from the wreckage and finding her own voice. If Faithfull...
Uncut November 2022
HAVE A COPY SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR HOME Björk, Steely Dan, Ashley Hutchings, Herbie Hancock, Aoife Nessa Frances, Cat Power, The Ruts, The Fall, Lamont Dozier, Brian Auger and Brian Eno all feature in the new Uncut, dated November 2022 and in UK shops from September 15 or available to buy online now. This issue comes with an exclusive free 15-track CD of the month’s best new music. BJÖRK: Returning to Iceland, Björk found herself putting down roots, reconnecting with her ancestry, losing her mother and becoming a grandmother. The result is Fossora – the final part of her own...
Daniel Romano’s Outfit La Luna
It’s almost impossible to keep track of Daniel Romano. When he’s not publishing collections of poetry or art, the Ontario musician is either recording solo, producing others (most recently Carson McHone’s Still Life) or creating ambient epics under the guise of varianza. To call him prolific feels reductive. In 2020 alone, grounded by the pandemic, he released no fewer than eight albums, either solo or fronting Daniel Romano’s Outfit, including an entire reimagining of Bob Dylan’s Infidels. ORDER NOW: Joni Mitchell is on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut La Luna might be his most ambitious project...
Pixies Ultimate Music Guide
As they release a great new album, we present the Ultimate Music Guide to the Pixies – and their magnificent sister group The Breeders. From the spectacular breakthrough, through the mounting tensions and split – and the surprising rebirth – this is the full story of an incredibly influential art-rock band dynasty. “You’ll think I’m dead, but I sail away…” Buy a copy here!
The Beatles unveil Revolver Special Edition
A special edition of Revolver is set to be released next month. ORDER NOW: Joni Mitchell is on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut It is the latest Beatles album to be re-released as a remixed and expanded deluxe box set following Sgt. Pepper’s in 2017, the ‘White Album’ in 2018, Abbey Road in 2019 and Let It Be last year. First released in August 1966, this new configuration includes a range of newly mixed and expanded special edition packages. Advertisement All 14 tracks on the original album have been newly mixed by Giles Martin and engineer...
David Sylvian Blemish/Manafon
Interviewed in 2009, David Sylvian mused upon the supposed difficulty of Manafon, his last vocal studio album to date. “I don’t personally hear it as being a difficult album, but I’ve always known the experience would be different for others. Time will soften its edges. It may sow the seeds for what might develop into a new genre for vocal music perhaps? Or maybe it’s simply a passing glitch on the digital face of popular music. I don’t know. But what I am sure of is that, over time, its abstractions will become much easier to embrace.” ORDER NOW:...
Vince Guaraldi It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
For millions around the world who were children between the mid-’60s and the early 1980s, Vince Guaraldi’s music for the Peanuts cartoons is deeply engrained. It was often the first jazz music they will have heard, although, at the time, Guaraldi’s upbeat, cheerful themes must have seemed an odd choice to soundtrack the grim, bleakly comic world of Charles M Schulz. ORDER NOW: Joni Mitchell is on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut Born in San Francisco in 1928, Guaraldi emerged in the ’50s accompanying the vibist Cal Tjader, later joining Woody Herman’s big band. In 1962...
Fleet Foxes: Usher Hall, Edinburgh, August 30, 2022
For the last few tours, Fleet Foxes have closed their live sets with “Helplessness Blues” – a song about Robin Pecknold’s struggles to overcome existential worries about his place in the modern world. “What’s my name? What’s my station?” he sings. “Oh, just tell me what I should do”. In the 11 years since the song was first released, you could argue that the conditions that first inspired Pecknold to write “Helplessness Blues” have become more pronounced; but the man singing the song in 2022 is evidently in a different place entirely. Indeed, watching Pecknold bobbing and bouncing around...
The 6th Uncut New Music Playlist Of 2022
You join us on a busy Monday morning where we’re in the throes of finishing an issue. We’ll talk about that soon enough – stand by for revelations concerning the car boot sale purchases of one of our most beloved artists – but for now here’s something to ease you into the week: a list of the records we’ve played over the past couple of days in the virtual Uncut office. Lots of good new stuff from Margo Price, Arctic Monkeys, Pole, Caitlin Rose and The National as well as some more recent discoveries for you. Incidentally, I’m off...Recent Posts
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