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The Pretty Things Bare As Bone, Black As Blood

It seems The Pretty Things weren’t quite done when they played their final show in December 2018. Despite announcing their retirement as a live unit with a sell-out bash at London’s O2, some 55 years after they first began, sessions for a new studio album were already afoot. The project only fell through when it became apparent that lead singer Phil May, his appetite for performance restored, wouldn’t be able to tour it due to ongoing problems with emphysema. Keen to press on with recording, the band eventually decided to unplug the electrics and, for the first time in...
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Prince Sign O’ The Times

It’s jarring to hear Prince’s speaking voice at the beginning of “Power Fantastic”, one of the many vault tracks included with this reissue of Sign O’ The Times. “Just trip,” he instructs the assembled musicians, his voice low and casual. “There are no mistakes this time. This is the fun track. Might not be the one we keep, but we’ll just have fun playing it.” What follows is a floridly psychedelic meditation on the power of music, as Prince documents his own compulsion to create. A slightly edited version of the song appears on the 1993 comp The Hits/The...
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Idles on Ultra Mono: “It took a lot of screaming matches to get it right”

Idles’ highly anticipated new album Ultra Mono is now in shops – and so is the latest issue of Uncut, in which the band talk with typical candour about the making of their big statement record and their compelling journey up to this point. You can also order a copy of the magazine online by clicking here. In the meantime, here’s a taster of Michael Hann’s eye-opening encounter with the Bristol bruisers: The principal recording for Ultra Mono took place in just eight days, at La Frette Studios, an hour north of Paris, a favoured location of Nick Launay...
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Sa’ra Charismata Sets The World Of Pop On Fire With New Music Video “Hypocrites”

Swedish rising star Sa’ra Charismata just dropped her new music video for the empowering single “Hypocrites.” She releases the song via her own label Ball N Dress, remaining freed and independent, and in perfect alignment with her core values. Charismata is a fighter for change through empowering people, especially women, to reconnect with their highest potential, and “who we really are: powerful.”  He has had multiple lives in one, signing a deal with Virgin/Records/Universal in 2016, after marking spirits with the release of her hit song “Mushroom.” Bob Marley. Lauryn Hill and Bad Brains are some of the artists...
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Khiy’s “Jamaican Me Happy” Is A Trip To Heaven

If you have ever tried to imagine what the perfect sound, voice, instrumentals or beat sound like, it might have been something close to Khiy’s new contribution to music, a tropical and dreamy track titled “Jamaican Me Happy.”  The young singer-songwriter Kiah Coleman, aka Khiy, has concocted a mixture of everything we love in music, from reggae to pop, from Hip-Hop to R&B and everything in between. Her sound is so smooth and universally approachable, while she talks about her passion and love for marijuana, a plant that helps her expression through art, spend memorable moments with her friends...
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Pop Singer EM Drops A Very Emotional Album Titled Pathway To Aetheria

New Jersey-bred pop artist EM is releasing her album titled Pathway To Aetheria which is a home for 8 very emotional songs. According to EM this album is more like a prelude to becoming EM as she had been working on it the earliest stages of her career as a musician. Pathway To Aetheria is created by EM to share with us her journey towards enlightenment. With the help of her uniquely mesmerizing music, EM tries to deliver to her listeners the importance of the way we are absorbing everyone’s emotions until we realize that they are not serving...
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Elin Wolf Releases The Sonically Remarkable “Nighttrain to Yosemite”

Swedish singer and songwriter Elin Wolf, previously known as Elin K, has just dropped her latest song, “Nighttrain To Yosemite.” A traveler who loves to bring back her experiences of the wild to her music in the most powerful ways, Elin Wolf has released a remarkable song that is set to make some heavy noise in the rock scene and beyond. She has been praised by industry heavyweights including Robin Mortensen Lynch (Pink, Justin Timberlake) and Vanessa Liftig (Wu Tang Clan), and just a quick listen at “Nighttrain To Yosemite” will enlighten listeners on the reasons of her massive...
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Fleet Foxes Shore

Early into lockdown, people began sharing clips on social media of deer roaming housing estates in Essex, coyotes prowling across the Golden Gate Bridge, goats promenading along Llandudno high street and other signs that animals were moving into the spaces that humans had vacated. Nature, it seemed, was making a comeback in the wake of the pandemic. It feels, then, like an appropriate time to welcome back Fleet Foxes. Shore, their fourth album, is accompanied by a film shot around Washington State comprising a series of nature scenes – water running over stone, flowers in the field, horses in...
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Richard & Linda Thompson Hard Luck Stories 1972 1982

Linda Peters and Richard Thompson’s partnership began with a dreadful conversation in a Chelsea restaurant, and ended with the ‘tour from hell’, car theft and an arrest. In between, there were those experiences common to most relationships. You know the sort: marriage, children, six poorly selling albums and more than a year in a couple of intense Sufi Muslim communities. Hard Luck Stories attempts to catalogue, across eight CDs, this fragile decade the Thompsons spent together and all that they created in that tumultuous time. Inside there’s one masterpiece and three very fine records, all remastered. There are also...
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PJ Harvey: “She’s an auteur… she knows what she wants”

The new issue of Uncut – in shops now and also available to order online by clicking here – features a deep dive into the making of PJ Harvey’s 1995 album To Bring You My Love, the first of many radical career inventions for its creator. Peter Watts talks to Harvey’s closest collaborators about toy dinosaurs, skittle alleys in Dorset and Bob Dylan bootlegs – and how a creative rebirth became a definitive moment in Harvey’s remarkable career. Towards the end of 1993, Harvey saw a student production of Hamlet, scored by John Parish, in Yeovil. An old friend,...
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