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Japan Quiet Life Deluxe Edition

In 2019, an extensive reissue campaign of David Sylvian’s solo albums reminded us how far this reluctant star had retreated from the limelight. Who could blame him? Japan found success too late, after they had already decided to split, when personal conflicts became unendurable. It’s a situation laid out on “Ghosts”, the exquisitely cold and distant highlight of their fifth and final album, 1981’s Tin Drum. “The ghosts of my life blow wilder than before”, mourned Sylvian, lost somewhere deep inside his own anxieties. But let us remember happier times, where the band’s vision finally coalesced. Japan had formed...
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R&B-Pop Sensation Nazanin Returns With “Red Light”

NYC-based singer-songwriter Nazanin, returns after her striking debut single “Infatuation” with her latest release, “Red Light.” The R&B-Pop sensation unveils an intensely appealing blend of pop and contemporary R&B, building-up on the momentum initiated by her debut release. “Red Light” finds Nazanin shares her attraction and brief relationship with a guy she met when she was younger, a personal experience she described as toxic. While most of us have had such experiences, Nazanin translates it beautifully into a hypnotic track, set to increase her popularity, especially amongst urban music fans. Her atypical childhood is one of the key elements...
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Uncut May 2021

CLICK HERE TO GET THE NEW UNCUT DELIVERED DIRECT TO YOUR DOOR The Velvet Underground, The Black Crowes, Bunny Wailer, Richard Thompson, Rhiannon Giddens, Laurie Anderson, Blake Mills, Nick Cave, Postcard Records, Mogwai and The Selecter all feature in the new Uncut, dated May 2021 and in UK shops from March 18 or available to buy online now. As always, the issue comes with a free CD, this time comprising 15 tracks of the finest ambient Americana. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: With a motherlode of activity planned for this year, we’ve assembled a collection of untold stories and compelling insights on the band who changed everything – those...
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Symphonic Elements And A Typhoon of Emotions, What More Could We Ask From Kitt Wakeley’s “Conflicted”

Kitt Wakeley’s upcoming album, Symphony of Sinners and Saints, will include a plethora of musical elements. EDM, orchestral music, heavy guitar, and thundering drums are a few of the album’s elements. Conducted by London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and recorded at London’s famous Abbey Road Studio, “Conflicted” is a superb composition by the composer, portraying the inner struggle human beings experience.  Featuring the well-known instrumental rock guitarist Joe Satriani, Kitt Wakeley leaves nothing for the imagination. The duo has already proven that they are quite capable of releasing music that resonates with audiences worldwide. “Conflicted” is an excellent example of...
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Valerie June The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers

In late Autumn, the Tennessee-born songwriter Valerie June took to YouTube, live from her home in Brooklyn, NY. Seated fireside, and cross-legged, with an acoustic guitar, June wore two pink carnations in her dreadlocked hair and played “Stay”, the first track from her new record. Midway through the performance, still strumming, she told how her father had passed away on this very date four years earlier. “He died on the largest supermoon of the year!” June said, beaming, before taking a more philosophical turn: “As we think about impermanence, I’d like to invite all the lights and the spirits...
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Bob Dylan With Special Guest George Harrison 1970: 50th Anniversary Edition

On his return from the Isle Of Wight festival in September 1969, Bob Dylan moved himself, his wife and their three children – Sara was heavily pregnant with a fourth – from Woodstock to Greenwich Village. Settling into a townhouse on MacDougal Street, he tried to reconnect with the sort of life he had known after first arriving in New York from Minnesota. Early in 1970 he began recording the tracks that would not only complete Self-Portrait in time for a June release but provide the material for New Morning, which made its appearance in October. There would be...
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A Velvet Underground playlist

With the new issue of Uncut upon us we are delighted to bring you a Velvet Underground playlist of deep cuts to soundtrack this month’s cover story – a veritable Exploding Publishing Inevitable, no less. Have a copy sent straight to your home. Advertisement “Prominent Men” Peel Slowly And See (Polydor, 1995) Lou Reed would often downplay Dylan’s influence in later years, but this early acoustic Velvets number certainly bears the unmistakable imprint of Bob. Recorded in mid-1965 at John Cale’s Ludlow Street Loft, it’s practically a Freewheelin’ outtake, with wheezy harmonica, earnestly anti-establishment lyrics and a Reed vocal...
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Introducing the Ultimate Music Guide to The Fall

Buy the Ultimate Music Guide to The Fall here – with no delivery charge to the UK! Shortly before I am introduced to Mark E Smith in early 1998, his press officer tells me that whatever I might have heard lately, The Fall is still in robust professional condition. He does this by clapping me round the shoulder and saying, in an approximation of Smith’s north Manchester accent, words which have endured longer than anyone might ever have expected. Musicians come and go, Smith has recently told his PR, but “if it’s me and your granny on bongos, then...
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The Fall The Ultimate Music Guide

Check the record! Presenting the Ultimate Music Guide to the visionary genius of The Fall. Every album reviewed! Guest appearances rated! Featuring encounters with hip priest Mark E Smith! The complete guide to the wonderful and frightening world of Britain’s most original band. Buy a copy here!
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Send us your questions for Jason Pierce

Next month, Spiritualized will launch the The Spaceman Reissue Program with a half-speed remaster of their 1992 debut, Lazer Guided Melodies. While bandleader Jason Pierce is in retrospective mode, we’ve managed to collar him to answer your questions for Uncut’s next Audience With feature. Over the course of 35 years in music, Pierce’s unyielding psychedelic vision has provided us with numerous moments of spiritual and emotional enlightenment, first with the perfect prescriptions of Spacemen 3, then with the celestial majesty of Spiritualized, not to mention various solo excursions into free jazz and soundtracks. He’s walked with Jesus, he’s floated...