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The third Uncut New Music Playlist of 2025

It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these, so please excuse the abundant nature of this playlist. However, as you’ll discover, there’s a lot of great music around right now, from the triumphant returns of Pulp, Stereolab and Lana Del Rey, to the ever-enthralling explorations of Matt ‘MV’ Valentine, Kara-Lis Coverdale and Natural Information Society, to exciting new discoveries like Friendship, Quade and Lucy Gooch. Advertisement There’s also a newly unearthed Bruce Springsteen rarity, plus the latest tunes by SG Goodman, Bon Iver, Ganavya and Robert Forster – all of whom can be found holding forth in the new issue of Uncut, which hits UK shelves today. REM are the cover stars, and you can hear a deft cover of their “Strange Currencies” below, along with a genuinely revelatory take on a Black Sabbath anthem. Grab a copy of the mag and dig in… SG GOODMAN“Satellite”(Slough Water Records/Thirty Tigers) Advertisement [embedded content] NATALIE BERGMAN“Gunslinger”(Third Man) [embedded content] LANA DEL REY“Bluebird”(Polydor) [embedded content] BON IVER“There’s A Rhythmn / Au Revoir”(Jagjaguwar) [embedded content] THE JUNE 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING R.E.M., A DOORS RARITIES CD, BON IVER, PRINCE, SHACK, AMY WINEHOUSE, DIRE STRAITS, STEREOLAB AND… Read More →

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Souled American – Rise Above It: A Souled American Anthology

Souled American are a conundrum. Some say the Illinois quartet-turned-duo invented alt.country; others would bristle at that suggestion. They’ve been around for almost 40 years, but have only released six albums, a judicious selection from which now makes up Rise Above It, their first anthology. While they never reached a large audience, they’re held in high esteem: some of their supporters include Jeff Tweedy, who dedicated a chapter of his book World Within A Song to Souled American’s “Before Tonight”, and Jim O’Rourke, who described their 1997 ‘comeback’ gig in Chicago as “the greatest show I’ve ever seen.” The band’s fans, who rarely lack patience, have been waiting 27 years for their (now complete) seventh. THE JUNE 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING R.E.M., A DOORS RARITIES CD, BON IVER, PRINCE, SHACK, AMY WINEHOUSE, DIRE STRAITS, STEREOLAB AND MORE Advertisement Their genesis story, too, is just about as curious as they come. The core duo of Chris Grigoroff and Joe Adducci were both raised in Charleston, Illinois, where they met through church; their families were locally known, working in radio and hospitality. They’d both spent some time during the ’70s making music, Grigoroff in the India… Read More →

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Pere Ubu’s David Thomas has died, aged 71

David Thomas – co-founder and frontman of Rocket From The Tombs and Pere Ubu – has died aged 71, after a long illness. Advertisement According to a statement from his label, Fire Records, Thomas “passed away on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, at home with MC5 playing on the radio.” Thomas co-founded Rocket From The Tombs in Cleveland in 1974. The band were together for little over a year and never recorded an album, but proved to be hugely influential on the emerging punk movement. Thomas went on to form Pere Ubu, who released their startling debut single “30 Seconds Over Tokyo” on Thomas’s own Hearthan label in 1975, followed by landmark post-punk albums The Modern Dance, Dub Housing and New Picnic Time. Advertisement Apart from a five-year hiatus in the 1980s, the band continued to tour and record at a steady rate in various permutations, with Thomas the sole constant. All in all, Pere Ubu released 19 studio albums, their most recent being 2023’s Trouble On Big Beat Street. Thomas also pursued numerous solo ventures – often of a more freeform, poetic bent – backed by outfits including The Pedestrians, The Wooden Birds and Two Pale Boys. Along the way,… Read More →

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“It’s such a magic connection”

Brian D’Addario is used to transporting his listeners back to the ’60s with the music of The Lemon Twigs; now he’s done the same for original hippie bard Stephen Kalinich. “I’d send him poems and he was so supportive of me,” Kalinich says of their collaboration on D’Addario’s forthcoming solo album Till The Morning. “It was like with Dennis [Wilson], I had that feeling with him. He’s so open. It’s such a magic connection… beyond just human. Brian has this way to get into a lyric and make it come to life.” THE JUNE 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING R.E.M., A DOORS RARITIES CD, BON IVER, PRINCE, SHACK, AMY WINEHOUSE, DIRE STRAITS, STEREOLAB AND MORE Advertisement Kalinich is now 83, but he’s still very much recognisable as the idealistic hippie dreamer who turned up to the The Beach Boys’ office in 1966 with hair to his waist and a paper bag full of poems. The lyrics he wrote for songs such as “Little Bird”, “Be Still” and “All I Want To Do” spoke of life being “meant for joy”, of learning a carefree mindset from nature, and of the all-healing salve of love. Subsequent work… Read More →

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End Of The Road Festival 2025 day splits revealed!

The day splits have been announced for this year’s End Of The Road Festival, which runs from August 28 – August 31 at Wiltshire’s Larmer Tree Gardens. THE JUNE 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING R.E.M., A DOORS RARITIES CD, BON IVER, PRINCE, SHACK, AMY WINEHOUSE, DIRE STRAITS, STEREOLAB AND MORE Advertisement Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory will headline the main Woods stage on Thursday. Friday, meanwhile, finds Caribou headlining Woods, but elsewhere on site you can find Matt Berninger, Lisa O’Neill, Rosalie, an Incredible String Band celebration, Daisy Rickman, These New Puritans and Bridget Hayden And The Apparitions. On Saturday, you’ll find the likes of Mount Kimbie, Jim Ghedi, Throwing Muses, Jennifer Castle, Self Esteem and Geordie Greep. Finally, on Sunday, there’s Father John Misty, Ryan David & The Roadhouse Blues Band, Black Country, New Road, Tucker Zimmerman, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Shovel Dance Collective and Christopher Owens. Advertisement Plenty to discover elsewhere in the line up too… FULL LINEUP ADULT DVDAILI ANIKA ANNA ERHARD ASTRID SONNE AUNTY RAYZOR BAMBARA BDRMM BLACK FONDU BLAWAN (LIVE) BOMBINO BRIDGET HAYDEN AND THE APPARITIONS BROADSIDE HACKS PRESENTS: A CELEBRATION OF THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND FEAT. VERY SPECIAL GUESTS… Read More →

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Tunde Adebimpe – My Life In Music

The TV On The Radio frontman on his formative transmissions: “It’s great when a show feels a little bit dangerous” THE JUNE 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING R.E.M., A DOORS RARITIES CD, BON IVER, PRINCE, SHACK, AMY WINEHOUSE, DIRE STRAITS, STEREOLAB AND MORE Advertisement STEVIE WONDERTalking BookTAMLA, 1972I remember this record playing in our house when I was very young, particularly “You Are The Sunshine Of My Life”. It’s an absolute skill to write lyrics that are so simple and so effective, even if it could only have been written in that time, because no-one had used that set of lyrics before! But it’s such a gorgeous record. My mom would also play me things that Stevie Wonder had done in the ’60s when he was a kid, and it’s interesting at a young age to have an idea of how an artist can evolve. Something that’s stuck with me is the realisation that there are a million different ways to be an artist, and as you get older, your ability and willingness to do different things increases. KING SUNNY ADÉ AND HIS AFRICAN BEATSSynchro SystemISLAND, 1983My parents are both from Nigeria, and this was… Read More →

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Bon Iver – SABLE, fABLE

Last autumn, the Wisconsin band Bon Iver released a new song named “Speyside”; a pared-back and rueful composition in which Justin Vernon’s voice clung only to guitar and pedal steel. It was an astonishing piece of songwriting, but its demeanour was familiar; many wondered whether it might signal a doubling-back to the folky and forlorn terrain of the band’s first album, For Emma, Forever Ago, after so many years in the experimental wilderness. THE JUNE 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING R.E.M., A DOORS RARITIES CD, BON IVER, PRINCE, SHACK, AMY WINEHOUSE, DIRE STRAITS, STEREOLAB AND MORE Advertisement Bon Iver is now a band of 18 years and five albums’ standing. Their shape and size has been fluid, and their output diverse. But their career to date has been a lesson in the unfaltering power of narrative. Not only was their 2007 debut a record of startling perfection, the story that accompanied its release – of a lovelorn songwriter retreating to a cabin in the Wisconsin woods to write a break-up record, was so beguiling, so thoroughly seductive, that for nearly two decades it has been hard to outrun. After an absence of six years, SABLE,… Read More →

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Uncut June 2025

CLICK HERE TO GET THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR EVERY PRINT EDITION OF THIS ISSUE OF UNCUT COMES WITH A COPY OF THE OTHER SIDE – A DOORS CD OF RARITIES, DEMOS AND LIVE CUTS Advertisement R.E.M.: 40 years ago, R.E.M. travelled to London to make their third album, Fables Of The Reconstruction. A cryptic record, it arrived in difficult circumstances — yet played a critical role in the band’s transformation. In exclusive new interviews, MICHAEL STIPE, PETER BUCK and MIKE MILLS shine new light on their early years. “By the time we got to Fables, we were all crazy, to one degree or another…” THE DOORS: As they celebrate their 60th anniversary, JOHN DENSMORE and ROBBER KRIEGER celebrate 10 of THE DOORS greatest songs. “We were proud to break that three-minute barrier!” BON IVER: The journey from “man in cabin, sad bastard” to Grammy awards has not been easy for JUSTIN VERNON. But change is afoot… “This is the new era for Bon Iver!” Advertisement SHACK: Illuminated by the psychedelic Merseybeat of brothers JOHN and MICHAEL HEAD, SHACK were waylaid by addiction, misfortune and disappointment. Now we hear how sobriety, family and chemistry have played… Read More →

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Introducing the new Uncut: R.E.M., a free Doors CD, Bon Iver, Prince, Shack, Dire Straits & more

CLICK HERE TO GET THE NEW ISSUE OF UNCUT DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR “This is a special place, where dreams come true,” concluded actor Michael Shannon in February, moments after the four members of R.E.M. left the stage at Athens, Georgia’s 40 Watt club, having performed together publicly for only the second time since Bill Berry’s departure in 2007. Advertisement Repeatedly insisting they’ll never undertake a full-blown reunion, this fleeting get-together (with Shannon, guitarist Jason Narducy and their band during their Fables Of The Reconstruction celebration tour) reminded us of R.E.M.’s powerful reputation – not just as revered indie-rock trailblazers, but as a source of light and hope. In the aftermath of the momentous event at the 40 Watt, our cover story finds Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills reflecting on their early years and in particular Fables… as it turns 40: a pivotal record in the band’s story as they begin to transition away from a lively and mysterious post-punk outfit into a concerned and influential rock band. We also bring you an eyewitness report from the 40 Watt and hear from Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy, as they prepare to bring their Fables… tour to the UK. Pondering… Read More →

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The new Ultimate Music Guide: Siouxsie & The Banshees

There’s a great bit in the Siouxsie And The Banshees live film Nocturne which captures some of the band’s unique quality. They’re playing at London’s Albert Hall, and the film has quite a lot of fun with the idea that while the venue is very posh, the people attending the show are rather scruffy. Advertisement Sure enough, the crowd are unruly. The Banshees, though, are all dignity, thriving on the novelty and drawing strength from the unexpected context. As you’ll read in this latest Ultimate Music Guide, that’s very much been the case through the band’s history. Having been in at the arguable start of punk in 1976, the band avoided the stampede to emerge finally emerge in 1978 with their early musical limitations hardened into a jagged ethos. No-one seems to have called it post-punk then, but their scorched earth policy and surprise hit single “Hong Kong Garden” proved to be the foundation of an enduring career. Guided principally by the Siouxsie/Severin aesthetic, the band embraced and outlived its impressive guitarists – John McKay, John McGeogh, Jon Klein, even fleetingly Johnny Marr – to restart itself with a new proposition whenever they chose. No wonder the Banshees embraced side-projects… Read More →

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Laura Marling: “maybe a once-in-a-lifetime thing”

From Uncut’s August 2020 issue [Take 279], the songwriting seeker talks us through her back catalogue… A follow-up to this spring’s Song For Our Daughter may be a little way off, explains Laura Marling. “If I’m on the road for an extended period of time, I tend to have written an album by the time I get back,” she says. “Obviously that’s been completely scuppered by coronavirus. When I’m at home I play the guitar but I don’t really feel the need to write – I mean, I’m at home, I’ve got nothing to miss.” Advertisement For now, though, there’s her extensive back catalogue to enjoy, and it’s this body of work that the songwriter is taking us through here; from her first studio experiences to orchestral arrangements for three bass guitars, via her own personal highpoint, 2013’s Once I Was An Eagle: “It’s just one of those things, maybe a once-in-a-lifetime thing.” Along the way, Marling ponders her time in Los Angeles, being one half of Lump and her mission as a solo artist today. “I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel,” she says. “As much as I love Blake Mills’ production on Semper Femina – and I would… Read More →

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Tom Petty: runnin’ down a dream

From Uncut’s September 2016 issue [Take 232]: TOM PETTY gets the old gang back together. That is, his doomed first band, MUDCRUTCH, a mix of Heartbreakers and guitar teachers reunited for a long-awaited turn in the spotlight. Uncut meets a reborn Mudcrutch in New York, and explores with them the lost hinterland of a rock superstar. Tom Petty came to success in a very roundabout way. During his induction into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame in New York in early June, Petty explains that, even today—having spent the best part of three decades refining back-to-basics American rock—he still considers himself to be an outsider. “I’m sorta the rock’n’roll white trash section of the show,” he deadpans from the podium of the Marriott Marquis Ballroom. Tonight, Petty is in illustrious company. His fellow inductees include Lionel Richie, Elvis Costello, Nile Rodgers and posthumously, Marvin Gaye. Petty is suitably dressed for the occasion, sporting a military-cut black tuxedo, a black silk shirt and a thin purple cravat. He is inaugurated by his friend Roger McGuinn and although the tone of the event is light and celebratory, Petty’s acceptance speech shares several hard truths about the nature of his craft. “Writing a song for a… Read More →

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500 Greatest Albums of the 1950s…Ranked!

“Before Elvis,” John Lennon famously said, describing the cultural landscape of the 1950s, “there was nothing.” And if you were a young aspiring musician looking for an escape from your suburban existence, then that must have been how the decade seemed. Post-war austerity. Scant television. “How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?” on the radio. Advertisement As you’ll read in this new magazine, though, if it felt like there was nothing before Elvis, there was plenty going on at around the same time. John might have inclined to Elvis, but alongside his explosion there was a volley of aftershocks: the riotous, controversial Little Richard (Paul’s favourite), Gene Vincent, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the influential Carl Perkins (who the Beatles covered three times). As the record business expanded operations to feed an insatiable demand for subversive rock ‘n’ roll, the 1950s initiated the practices which continue to serve it still: best ofs, singles collections, early works. The new “LP” (“long player”), a stable 10” or 12” plastic disc which could hold half an hour of music, was sufficiently robust to suggest the enduring quality of the music. But if rock made the loudest noise, it didn’t tell the full story…. Read More →

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Father John Misty, Royal Albert Hall, London, April 15, 2025

This is Josh Tillman’s debut at the Royal Albert Hall – or, as he tells the audience, the first time he’s ever even been in a room this distinguished – but it feels like the venue that Father John Misty was born to play. Ever since Tillman recorded Fear Fun as Father John Misty in 2012, he has perfected the art of the opulent confessional – part folk, part cabaret – that feels tailor-made for the interior of the Albert Hall, a womb designed by Fabergé. Advertisement THE MAY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING SMALL FACES, A SMALL FACES RARITIES CD, RADIOHEAD, LOU REED, BOOTSY COLLINS, POGUES, THESE NEW PURITANS, SUZANNE VEGA AND MORE And Tillman is in exquisite form as he brings his Mahashmashana tour to the UK. Backed by a fantastic seven-piece band, plus his own occasional contributions on acoustic, Tillman plays every song from his 2024 album, interspersed with select additions from a strong catalogue. Although Tillman jokes about the nature of his material – “here’s yet another beautiful ballad about getting gaslight by capitalism” he says, eyebrows raised, before “Mahashmashana” – he also shows a range that takes in country weepers… Read More →

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Songs Of Green Pheasant – Sings The Passing

Some musicians get their first glimpse of celebrity, flinch in the glare of the spotlight, and quickly burrow their way back underground. But Duncan Sumpner, you suspect, knew from the beginning that fame – even fame on a very small and grassroots indie level – was not for him. Advertisement THE MAY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING SMALL FACES, A SMALL FACES RARITIES CD, RADIOHEAD, LOU REED, BOOTSY COLLINS, POGUES, THESE NEW PURITANS, SUZANNE VEGA AND MORE A schoolteacher from Oughtibridge, a residential village on the outskirts of Sheffield, Sumpner has released a string of records under the name Songs Of Green Pheasant without ever quite stepping into the light. The project’s origin story speaks volumes about his elusive approach. A demo that Sumpner sent to Fat Cat in 2002 became a fixture on the label’s office stereo. But when they decided to get in contact to offer him a record deal, the email bounced back, and it took them years to track him down. In the years since, there have been a few brief interviews, a smattering of live shows and absolutely nothing like a synergistic brand partnership or engagement-boosting Tik Tok campaign. At… Read More →

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Eiko Ishibashi – Antigone

Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, heroic challenger to male authority, has stamped her identity on Western culture over millennia, the subject of ancient Greek tragedy and French drama, European operas and world cinema. In Sophocles’s play, she ends up hanging herself rather than being walled up alive in a tomb. Eiko Ishibashi’s latest album may share a name with the tragic heroine, but there’s no melodrama here. The prevailing mood of Antigone is a stalling world nudged by invisible forces off its axis, beginning its slow spin into decay or disaster. Which makes it a pertinent listen for the wobbly historical moment we find ourselves in. Advertisement THE MAY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING SMALL FACES, A SMALL FACES RARITIES CD, RADIOHEAD, LOU REED, BOOTSY COLLINS, POGUES, THESE NEW PURITANS, SUZANNE VEGA AND MORE The sleeve art sets the tone perfectly. Computer generated blobs and geometric solids loom above Taro Mizutani’s monochrome land- and cityscapes. They are like stills from an alien disaster movie, where an unimaginably advanced civilisation arrives in unfamiliar, gigantic craft and floats, menacingly and soundlessly, above our home planet, making us feel suddenly very, very small. With Antigone, Ishibashi’s music has reached… Read More →

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Neil Young – Coastal

In 2022, Neil Young embarked on his first concert tour in almost four years, 15 shows that never strayed too far from the Californian coastline. For Young – subjected, like all of us, to lockdown restrictions – this was the longest period he’d been off the road since 1978. As a consequence, Coastal finds Young in unusually reflective form. “It’s going to be a real trip walking out there on stage,” he confides to driver (and straight man) Jerry Don Borden. “Focus somewhere else,” advises Borden sagely as he pilots Young’s beloved Silver Eagle tour bus along the highway. Advertisement THE MAY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING SMALL FACES, A SMALL FACES RARITIES CD, RADIOHEAD, LOU REED, BOOTSY COLLINS, POGUES, THESE NEW PURITANS, SUZANNE VEGA AND MORE Directed affectionately by Daryl Hannah, Young’s wife, we see him soundchecking in the afternoon sunshine, practising vocal warm-ups in his bus and finally taking the long walk towards the stage itself. “I’m fucking scared,” he confesses with only a hit of a laugh on the tour’s opening night. Pre-show jitters or something more existential, nevertheless up on stage, Young eases into a familiar role, working the audience with… Read More →

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Flame on!

Noddy Holder is recounting the colourful discussions that led to Slade In Flame, the 1975 feature film that stalled the band’s career but has been subsequently hailed (by critic Mark Kermode) as “the Citizen Kane of British pop movies”, poised for a plush 50th anniversary remaster by the BFI. “We were adamant we were not going to do a slapstick movie, which is what was expected of us,” says the ever-avuncular Holder. “Although, we were quite interested in one idea for a sci-fi horror movie – a spoof of The Quatermass Experiment. We all liked it apart from Dave Hill. He was going to be eaten by a triffid in the first 15 minutes, and all we’d see for the rest of the movie was his hair dangling out of its mouth.” Advertisement THE MAY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING SMALL FACES, A SMALL FACES RARITIES CD, RADIOHEAD, LOU REED, BOOTSY COLLINS, POGUES, THESE NEW PURITANS, SUZANNE VEGA AND MORE Sci-fi’s loss was gritty realism’s gain. Produced in the wake of That’ll Be The Day and Stardust, Slade in Flame was an even darker take on the rock’n’roll dream, lifting the lid on the cut-throat… Read More →

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Hear Lana Del Rey’s new single, “Henry, come on”

Lana Del Rey has released a new single, “Henry, come on“. The track was written by Del Rey and Luke Laird, who both produced the track together with Drew Erickson. THE MAY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING SMALL FACES, A SMALL FACES RARITIES CD, RADIOHEAD, LOU REED, BOOTSY COLLINS, POGUES, THESE NEW PURITANS, SUZANNE VEGA AND MORE The track, released by Polydor Records, is the first preview of her upcoming album The Right Person Will Stay.

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Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe announce two collaborative albums

Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe have announced two collaborative albums. Luminal and Lateral will be released together on June 6 through Verve Records. You can hear ”Suddenly” and ”Big Empty Country (Edit)”, from Luminal and Lateral respectively, below. Advertisement THE MAY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING SMALL FACES, A SMALL FACES RARITIES CD, RADIOHEAD, LOU REED, BOOTSY COLLINS, POGUES, THESE NEW PURITANS, SUZANNE VEGA AND MORE Eno and Wolfe first met through their environmental work when they gave a South By South West talk on ‘Art and Climate’. The pair then met again when they were each showing their visual and conceptual art pieces at separate galleries in London. Their musical collaboration, which was recorded sporadically by the pair through 2024, grew out of those meetings. Advertisement [embedded content] [embedded content] According to the pair, Luminal is Dream music. Lateral is Space music You can pre-order the albums here, including CD and exclusive colour biovinyl manufactured using eco-friendly materials. The tracklisting for Luminal is: Milky SleepHopelessly At EaseMy Lovely DaysPlay OnShhhSuddenlyA Ceiling and a LifeboatAnd Live AgainBreath MarchNever Was It NowWhat We Are The tracklisting for Lateral is: CD TracklistBig Empty Country Vinyl TracklistBig Empty Country (Day)Big Empty Country (Night) Digital TracklistBig Empty Country Pt…. Read More →

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Nick Drake: a Five Leaves Left box set is coming

The Making Of Five Leaves Left, a project nine years in gestation, will be released on July 25 via UMR/Island Records. Advertisement This Nick Drake Estate authorised edition comprises over 30 previously unheard outtakes from the sessions which gradually became Five Leaves Left and will be available as 4 CD and 4 LP boxed sets. THE MAY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING SMALL FACES, A SMALL FACES RARITIES CD, RADIOHEAD, LOU REED, BOOTSY COLLINS, POGUES, THESE NEW PURITANS, SUZANNE VEGA AND MORE This lovingly put together set features studio out-takes and previously unheard songs that tell the story of how Drake’s debut album came to be released on Island Records in July 1969. Advertisement The set includes Nick’s first ever session at Sound Techniques – found on a mono listening-reel which Beverley Martyn had squirrelled away over fifty years ago. It also contains the full reel recorded at Caius College by Cambridge acquaintance Paul de Rivaz which had lain in the bottom of a drawer for decades, accompanying him and his family around the world. The Making Of Five Leaves Left will feature full recording details, charts and the recording history across an illustrated 60… Read More →