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Introducing the Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide to PJ Harvey
BUY THE PJ HARVEY ULTIMATE MUSIC GUIDE HERE Demo in the 1990s wasn’t an especially aspirational word. When PJ Harvey released her debut album Dry with an accompanying record called Demonstration, however, she elevated the whole enterprise from implying an occasionally half-baked means of securing a gig into a much bolder statement. In Harvey’s view her actual “finished” album came to seem something of a compromise, defanged and domesticated by familiarity. These initial versions, she seemed to be saying, were how the songs were meant to be heard. Advertisement As you’ll read in Stephen Troussé’s in-depth review of the...
PJ Harvey Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide
Meet ze monsta! Presenting the definitive, deluxe 148-page guide to PJ Harvey, from Dry and Dorset to Afghanistan and the Hope Six Demolition Project. All the albums, reviewed. The best archive interviews, rediscovered. The new demos, considered and admired at length. Buy a copy here!
David Gilmour reveals he is working on a new album
David Gilmour is working on a new album that he hopes will be out in the next year or two. ORDER NOW: The July 2021 issue of Uncut Gilmour, speaking together with his wife Polly Samson, revealed the forthcoming album in a new interview with Rolling Stone. “I’m hoping that I will have an album ready in the next year or two; I’m not that fast,” the 75-year-old guitarist said. He explained that lockdown was “one of the problems” hindering the record’s production. Advertisement “Getting other people in to listen, to help, and to play on things has been kind...
Tracey Thorn: “Global superstardom? It’s tiring”
Tracey Thorn is well aware of the absurdity of the situation that she and her Everything But The Girl partner Ben Watt found themselves in after Missing scaled charts around the world in the mid-’90s. “I remember thinking, ‘This is brilliant, I’ve loved it, but I couldn’t live like this forever.’ We’d already been along a road with some real ups and downs, so it was almost like someone waving a magic wand and saying, ‘After all that, you’re gonna have the fun of an absolutely massive fuck-off hit!’ Then we did the follow-up record, which was successful again, then...
Lindsey Buckingham announces new self-titled solo album
Following his split from Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham has announced that his new self-titled solo album – his first in a decade – will be released by Reprise on September 17. Hear the first single “I Don’t Mind” below: Advertisement “‘I Don’t Mind’, like many of the songs on my new album, is about the challenges couples face in long-term relationships,” says Buckingham. “Over time, two people inevitably find the need to augment their initial dynamic with one of flexibility, an acceptance of each others’ flaws and a willingness to continually work on issues; it is the essence of...
The 5th Uncut New Music Playlist Of 2021
It’s been far too long since we’ve done one of these, a terrible oversight for which we apologise profusely. Hopefully this bumper crop of superb new tunes will help make up the shortfall. As always, there’s a tonne of excellent new music here: a standalone single from the incomparable White Denim; Joan Shelley and Nathan Salsburg covering a song from the Superwolves album; Laura Marling at her poppiest; the returns of Matthew E White and Mega Bog; and plenty of lesser-known delights, including an astonishing performance from Korean duo Dal:um. Enjoy! WHITE DENIM “Crystal Bullets” (English Mallard) Advertisement JOAN...
Bruce Springsteen will return to Broadway this summer
Bruce Springsteen‘s acclaimed show will head back to Broadway starting June 26, while a social media post said that “additional performances” will take place up until September 4 at the St. James Theater. ORDER NOW: The July 2021 issue of Uncut At the time of publishing, the show is set to become the first to open on Broadway since the coronavirus closed down performances in March 2020. As reported in the New York Times, “audience members will be required to show proof of full Covid-19 vaccination along with their tickets to enter the . Entry times will be staggered, and...
Neil Young is working on an album with Crazy Horse
Neil Young has confirmed that he is currently working on a new album with his longtime collaborators Crazy Horse. ORDER NOW: The July 2021 issue of Uncut READ MORE: Review: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Déjà Vu: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Writing in his regular updates posted to his personal website The Neil Young Archives, Young revealed that he has five songs already ready for a new album, and that “recording with the Horse will begin soon”. Prompted by a fan letter that expressed keenness to see Young and Crazy Horse live again after such a long break, he added...
Tony Joe White Smoke From The Chimney
Bubba Jone is a strange swamp-rock saga about a man just trying to catch a fish. As story-songs go, there’s not very much to it, but Tony Joe White manages to invest it with some humour and some gravity. Over a bluesy guitar lick and a humid groove, he savours the back-country details, even telling you the brand of reel and the size of the boat, and he makes a meal – an entire feast, actually – out of the burbling syllables “bubbabubbabubbabubba”. What might sound like a low-stakes character sketch instead becomes a study in disappointment and resilience, with...Recent Posts
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