Buy the Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide to Neil Young here – with free P&P for the UK Early in the quarantine period there was talk of making lemonade – of the consolations which might obliquely be taken from the events we had globally been served. Among these was a proposed clearing of an attic or outbuilding, and a general putting of things into order. For many of us, it’s an undertaking which might still be put off indefinitely. For a singular personality, however, such a project might become an all-consuming passion. Not so much an itch which can’t be...
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American rapper-songwriter Blink just dropped a debut Hip-Hop song, “Wanna Party,” alongside a groovy music video. His soothing vocal flow and partying-vibe come together with swag for an outstanding sonic result. Known for his quick abilities as a Football player in University, Blink is much more on the slow and flowing side in his music. The Orlando, Florida rapper’s specialty; that chilling, steezy, player type of music vibes. With all the social distancing rules taking over everybody’s lives, “Wanna Party” is a refreshing hit preparing the post-covid-19 partying mode. Encouraging everyone to be themselves while making sure to live...
Aicha Dosso dropped her second single and music video for “J’en ai marre.” Premiered and reviewed by Divvy Magazine, “J’en ai marre,” is a ‘new single in total alignment with her debut release, as she consistently pursues soothing and poetic vibrations stemming from her signature blend between Parisian Cabaret and NYC-inspired sonorities. The song’s title means ‘I’ve had enough,’ as Aicha Dosso explores the many aspects she dislikes in today’s society, including people who can’t love, display violent behaviors, take but never give back or abuse others’ trust. The visuals are very “out-of-the-box,” and Aicha Dosso exposed her acting...
Personal narrative is the lifeblood of country music, and Loretta Lynn has a history more famously potent than most. One of eight children born to a Kentucky coal miner, she married at the age of 14 and endured a long, abusive relationship, became the first woman to win the CMA’s Entertainer Of The Year Award (in 1972) and is widely acknowledged as a pillar of the genre. It’s a story of struggle and success that’s sustained multiple retellings, whether in memoir, movie or album, and her 50th full-length is another iteration, with a slight twist. This year Coal Miner’s...
The current issue of Uncut – in shops now or available to buy online by clicking here, with free delivery for the UK – features a rare and exclusive interview with mercurial Postcard Records founder Alan Horne as he shares his personal selection of photos, artefacts and ephemera from deep within the label’s vaults. The most inspirationally DIY of the UK’s original post-punk indie wave, Postcard was dreamed into life in the Glasgow of 1979 by Horne, then an ambitiously bored 20-year-old, who famously ran the business out of the sock drawer in his tenement bedroom. Under the banner...
Signing to Warp around the turn of the millennium, Chris Clark was always likely to find himself operating in the shadow of the label’s more illustrious names. Early releases duly combined the glazed childlike wonder of Boards Of Canada with the rhythmic disruption of Aphex Twin, but it wasn’t until 2014’s superb self-titled album that a distinct Clark style solidified: glinting and megalithic, occasionally euphoric but freighted with dread. An atmospheric soundtrack for Sky Atlantic crime drama The Last Panthers opened new doors, eventually leading – via remixes of Max Richter and noted proto-raver JS Bach – to an...
Hopefully by now you will have had a chance to zone out to our magnificent new Sounds Of The New West Presents Ambient Americana CD, free with the latest issue of Uncut – if not, you can grab yourself a copy here. Anyway, this playlist picks up where the CD leaves off, with a brand new track by Marisa Anderson and William Tyler from their upcoming collaborative album Lost Futures. There are similarly blissed-out new sounds from Red River Dialect’s David John Morris – written during a nine-month retreat at a Buddhist monastery in Nova Scotia – as well...
The new issue of Uncut, dated May 2021, and available now, comes with a special free CD – the latest in our Sounds Of The New West series, Ambient Americana. CLICK HERE TO GET THE NEW UNCUT DELIVERED DIRECT TO YOUR DOOR It compiles 15 tracks by artists mixing the traditions of country and folk with the mind-expanding sounds of ambient and kosmische music – from the blown-out songforms of Steve Gunn and Sarah Louise to the pedal-steel transcendence of Chuck Johnson, SUSS and Luke Schneider, via the droning majesty of William Tyler, North Americans, Mary Lattimore and others. Advertisement...
Not for the first time in its history, Great Britain finds itself at a crossroads, pulled one way and another by opposing cultural and political forces. On one side stands an establishment dedicated to the consolidation of existing power; on the other, a movement to confront and atone for the more shameful aspects of the past, as a way of addressing them and moving forwards. Of course, Gang Of Four were there in 1979. As frontman Jon King sang on “Not Great Men”, the third track on their debut album Entertainment!: “The past lives on in your front room/The...