Imagine the Stone Roses with an immeasurably better singer modelled on Ian Brown, or Oasis with a dazzling lead guitarist. Liam Gallagher and John Squire have, and the resulting album plays to their strengths. Though coming almost out of the blue, it’s the most logical team-up among the remnants of Manchester’s old indie-rock imperium, currently awash with severed alliances searching for completion. PINK FLOYD ARE ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE Liam and Noel were a more extreme version of Morrissey and Marr’s sundering of stellar charisma and musical genius, with Liam’s songwriting...
Oren Ambarchi’s future path was defined by a serendipitous mix-up in his grandfather’s Sydney junkshop. Taking home what he thought was a copy of Iron Maiden’s Number Of The Beast, the record inside turned out to be Miles Davis’s even more nefarious Live-Evil. “I was really confused,” recalls Ambarchi. “The music was just bizarre. To my ears it sounded completely chaotic and didn’t make any sense. But I stuck with it, and became really obsessed with music from that point onwards. It opened the door to a lot of things.” Not only did his grandad’s shop inculcate an...
Love’s reputation rests on their dazzling third album, 1967’s Forever Changes. But the journey there involved several different stops. Not least among these is “She Comes In Colors” – a jazzier, flute and harpsichord-peppered Arthur Lee composition from 1966’s Da Capo. The Los Angeles band’s second album – named after a musical term meaning “back to the beginning” – took a pivotal step on the odyssey from their eponymous debut’s garage rock towards an ornate, psychedelic form of rock’n’roll. PINK FLOYD ARE ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE “The first album was more...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have revealed details of their new album, Wild God. Produced by Cave and Warren Ellis, mixed by David Fridmann, the album will be released on August 30 on their own Bad Seed label, in partnership with Play It Again Sam. Listen to the first single and title track below: Cave began writing the album on New Year’s Day 2023. It was recorded at Miraval in Provence and Soundtree in London, with the regular Bad Seeds line-up of Thomas Wydler, Martyn Casey, Jim Sclavunos, Warren Ellis and George Vjestica, plus additional performances...
LA jazz titan Kamasi Washington has announced that his new album Fearless Movement will be released by Young on May 3. Watch a video for the track “Prologue” below: Fearless Movement features contributions from the likes of André 3000, George Clinton, BJ The Chicago Kid, Thundercat, Terrace Martin, DJ Battlecat and more, including Washington’s own daughter. Advertisement Pre-order the album here and peruse the tracklisting below: Lesanu Asha The First (featuring Thundercat, Taj Austin, Ras Austin) Computer Love (featuring Patrice Quinn, DJ Battlecat, Brandon Coleman) The Visionary (featuring Terrace Martin) Get Lit (featuring George Clinton, D Smoke)...
Before Josephine Foster was an idiosyncratic solo singer, she was a member of short-lived folk duo The Children’s Hour. Here, Foster’s taut, strange voice and occasional harp, piano, ukulele and harmonium player was paired with Andy Bar’s loose and scratchy guitar. The duo recorded an EP and one excellent, underlooked album, SOS JFK, which came out in 2003 on Rough Trade and featured Tim Daisy on drums. But The Children’s Hour recorded a second album not long after, this time as a fully-fledged trio with Dave Pajo. That record, Going Home, is finally getting released on Drag City after...
Faye Webster is most at home in her own head. Every song on her fifth album puzzles over the way her brain works, how it worries over certain details, how it fixates on certain unpleasant feelings, how it works so often against her. She remembers the smell of her old apartment on “eBay Purchase History”, and she thinks she’s figured out why she’s so self-conscious on “Wanna Quit All The Time”. She tries in vain to evict an ex from her brainpan on, well, pretty much every song. That’s not to say she’s an introvert – Webster is active...
2024’s torrent of great new music just keeps on coming. This month, we bring you further evidence of Mick Head’s glorious renaissance, Brett Anderson covering Echo & The Bunnymen, Bonny Light Horseman finding inspiration in a remote Irish pub, new singles from Khruangbin and Isobel Campbell, and career-best stuff from Ben Chasny’s Six Organs Of Admittance. THERE’S PLENTY MORE NEW MUSIC COVERAGE INSIDE THE NEW UNCUT! ORDER YOUR COPY HERE Plus the return of US indie scufflers Les Savy Fav and Diiv, beautifully bleak new business from Keeley Forsyth and Stars Of The Lid’s Adam Wiltzie, and news of...
As you’ll have gathered by now, there’s a new issue of Uncut currently in shops, featuring a cavalcade of excellent new interviews and features as well as our definitive reviews section and a free, 15-track CD. PINK FLOYD ARE ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE Here’s a rundown of some highlights from the new issue… Advertisement PINK FLOYD With his SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS band, NICK MASON is on a mission to save the potent, foundational music of PINK FLOYD. In doing so, he aims to reassert the Floyd’s historic creative path from three-minute...
The Jesus And Mary Chain have announced details of their memoir. Never Understood will be published by White Rabbit books on August 15. PINK FLOYD ARE ON THE COVER OF THE NEW UNCUT – ORDER YOUR COPY HERE Written by Jim and William Reid, with Ben Thompson, the memoir is available in hardback, trade paperback, ebook and audio digital download, alongside a White Rabbit special edition and a vinyl audiobook. You can pre-order a copy here. Advertisement The Jesus And Mary Chain also star in this month’s issue of Uncut, where they discuss their new album Glasgow Eyes, how...
