While property prices make even the Soho of the 1990s a distant memory, the district in its older bohemian prime really is a long-lost Atlantis. But it resurfaces vividly in Edgar Wright’s Last Night In Soho, a cinematic séance with the spirits of the West End’s bygone glory. A love song to ’60s fashion, pop and glamour – while peeling back the dust covers over a squalid past – Last Night is a ghost story about a retro-loving ingénue, Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie), who comes to the big city to study fashion. Alienated, anxious and alone, she is haunted by...
Damon Albarn‘s new solo album, The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows, goes on sale today. In this interview – an edited version of which appeared in the December 2021 issue of Uncut – Albarn discusses the late, great Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen, cormorants, solar flares and an abandoned cruise ship… ORDER NOW: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE REVIEW OF 2021 FEATURE IN THE LATEST ISSUE OF UNCUT UNCUT: How much did the project change when you switched recording from Iceland to the UK in early 2020? DAMON ALBARN: It was originally commissioned as an orchestral project so we...
Jack White has announced two new studio albums, both of which will arrive in 2022. ORDER NOW: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE REVIEW OF 2021 FEATURE IN THE LATEST ISSUE OF UNCUT READ MORE: Jack White: “I knew Boarding House Reach would be divisive” The former White Stripes frontman returned last month with “Taking Me Back”, his first solo single in three years. It followed the 2018 record Boarding House Reach. Yesterday (November 11) White confirmed that he will release his fourth album Fear Of The Dawn on April 8 ahead of its follow-up, Entering Heaven Alive, arriving on July 22. You...
Kurt Cobain and Nirvana-inspired artist aku came out with a beautiful song called “rose gold in paris town” and a fascinating music video along with it. The song is an ode to the honeymoon phase of relationships where two people believe they are just perfect for each other. With dark subliminal messages, though, aku brings the listener back to reality, showing images of distorted beauty. “Lost in Heaven Space” is another one of aku’s latest songs that has generated thousands of streams. It has some impressive fast-paced beats and a lovely tune that sinks itself into your mind. The...
“Vengeance” is Diddy BMW’s newest single, fast and energetic. The song is meant to uncover the truth behind the glamorous appeal of living a street life. As anything else, there are numerous downsides to it and Diddy knows about them first hand, losing family and friends to gun violence and other criminal activity. With thousands upon thousands of streams to date and some heartfelt, bold music out, Diddy BMW is catching a lot of attention. “Shot You” was Diddy’s latest hit with thousands of streams, an infinitely impactful song with the most incredible rapping. His previous releases “Don’t Try...
CLICK TO GET THE NEW UNCUT DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR Bruce Springsteen, Uncut’s Review Of 2021, Jason Isbell, Yasmin Williams, Jonny Greenwood, The Weather Station, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, the Beach Boys, The Coral, and Marvin Gaye all feature in the new Uncut, dated January 2022 and in UK shops from November 11 or available to buy online now. As always, the issue comes with a free CD, this time comprising 15 of the best tracks from 2021. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Bruce Springsteen contains multitudes: activist, balladeer, bandleader, rock star and more. Many of these different Bruces align in his...
George Harrison‘s childhood home in Liverpool, where he, John Lennon and Paul McCartney rehearsed as teenagers, is set to be auctioned off. ORDER NOW: Read the full feature on David Bowie in Uncut’s December 2021 issue READ MORE: George Harrison – All Things Must Pass: 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe review The late Beatles guitarist moved with his family to 25 Upton Green in the Speke area of the city in 1949 when he was six years old. The house was the site of many rehearsals for the Beatles members’ former band The Quarrymen, which they formed when they were teenagers....
Johnny Marr has released two new singles, “Tenement Time” and “Sensory Street“. The songs are both set to appear on Marr’s Fever Dreams Pt 2 EP, which is released on December 17. ORDER NOW: Read the full feature on David Bowie in Uncut’s December 2021 issue Watch the official music video for “Tenement Time” below: Advertisement and the new lyric video for “Sensory Street” here: Marr previously released the Fever Dreams Pt 1 EP in August. Both EPs will be released alongside two further instalments on Marr’s forthcoming double album, Fever Dreams Pts 1 – 4 which is due for...
On Curtis Harding’s third solo album, music is a fundamentally hopeful medium. “Now in this present darkness, all ears just listen,” he raps on “Hopeful”, his flow nimble and bouncy and slightly rushed out of excitement. “A mass has formed to cure the common condition.” The song demonstrates Harding’s expansive approach to songwriting – to forming that mass – and shows how he deploys such disparate musical styles to create new textures. On the song’s chorus he’s joined by a gospel choir joyously chanting that title and pushing him along his righteous path. The jazz-fusion bridge melts into a...
He was large and gentle, Melody Maker reported, most unlike his music. Rather than busy and animated, the John Coltrane who played host to the musician and writer Mike Hennessey in a French hotel room was placid, devotional and calm. He unselfconsciously rehearsed his music for an hour. He ate a meal of egg yolks, soup, peaches and water, and spoke of “rediscovering” God. ORDER NOW: David Bowie is on the cover of the December 2021 issue of Uncut His still waters hid strong currents. A month before, Coltrane and a cast of 10 additional players had recorded the freeform...
