Arctic Monkeys have announced details of their new album, The Car. ORDER NOW: Joni Mitchell is on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut The band’s seventh studio album, The Car features ten new songs written by Alex Turner, produced by James Ford and recorded at Butley Priory, Suffolk, RAK Studios, London and La Frette, Paris. The deluxe LP will be available on limited grey vinyl with a tip on sleeve and mounted gloss cover image via the band’s official store. An exclusive, custard coloured LP will be available at independent record shops and HMV stores. The Car...
Bitchin Bajas are back, with their first new album since 2017’s Bajas Fresh. ORDER NOW: Joni Mitchell is on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut Bitchin Bajas – aka Cooper Crain, Rob Frye and Dan Quinlivan – release Bajascillators on 2xLP and cassette September 2 by Drag City. You can watch the video for “Amorpha”, from the album, below. Advertisement The band have also announced a run of American dates: Oct.12 – Minneapolis, MN @ Parkway Theater * Oct.13 – Iowa City, IA @ Trumpet Blossom Oct.14 – Rock Island, IL @ Rozz Tox Oct.15 – Milwaukee,...
The National arrive in the UK this coming week, for their first tour here since 2019, to play All Points East and the Connect festival. To celebrate, here’s our piece on the making of their classic track “Bloodbuzz Ohio” from Uncut’s June 2020 issue. Now read on… In 2009, The National were burned out. They had toured solidly on the back of their Alligator (2005) and Boxer (2008) albums and found themselves in what guitarist Aaron Dessner calls “a dark place… It was exhaustion and everything that comes with being that fatigued,” he says. “Relationships were suffering. We almost...
Tall Dwarfs emerged among a handful of standout ’80s punk-adjacent acts from New Zealand, burbling up in the wake of iconic label Flying Nun’s founding; and they tread a familiar path – locally beloved, but otherwise more obscure, an intriguing and essential layer in the country’s cultural underground. They were born out of cult band Toy Love, who were at one point so popular they made the hop to Sydney, on the promise of a springboard to London, but were swiftly met and then rejected by head-scratching pub-rock punters who didn’t get it. Crestfallen, Dwarfs co-founders Chris Knox and...
The ancient provocateur Diogenes – a kind of Grecian hybrid of Slavoj Žižek and Steve Bray – is one of Cass McCombs’ recent obsessions. Born two and a half millennia ago, Diogenes demonstrated his radical philosophy by living on the streets of Athens, sleeping in a ceramic wine vessel and offending the public with various stunts, all in the service of sticking it to the corrupt ruling class of the time. ORDER NOW: Joni Mitchell is on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut McCombs’ fascination is understandable, for Diogenes could easily have stepped from his catalogue; say, from...
“How old is 75?” Loudon Wainwright III asks near the end of his new album, Lifetime Achievement. There’s a rickety banjo strumming in the background as he answers his own rhetorical question: “So old you’re barely alive”. It lands like a punchline, but Wainwright tempers that levity with an almost unbearable gravity. On the verses to “How Old Is 75?” he notes that he’s already outlived his mother by one year and Loudon II by 13. What does that signify? Nothing really. It’s just the math of mortality, which measures the quantity but not the quality of years: “With...
A set of previously unseen photographs of The Band have been unearthed. ORDER NOW: Joni Mitchell is on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut Taken by Ernst Haas, this series of never-before-seen photographs document the final date of The Band’s four-night residency at New York’s Academy of Music on December 31, 1971. There, The Band were joined by Bob Dylan, who played four songs with his former backing band: “Down In The Flood”, “When I Paint My Masterpiece”, “Don’t Ya Tell Henry” and “Like A Rolling Stone”. The four shows were recorded and released as the Rock...
The genius that is Bill Callahan has announced details of a new studio album, YTI⅃AƎЯ. ORDER NOW: Joni Mitchell is on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut YTI⅃AƎЯ is released on October 14 via Drag City, with a vinyl edition coming next year. Callahan’s first album since 2020’s Gold Record, the new record also features Matt Kinsey on guitar, Emmett Kelly on bass/backing vocals, Sarah Ann Phillips on piano/backing vocals and Jim White on drums. Pre-order here and peruse the tracklisting below: Advertisement First Bird Everyway Bowevil Partition Lily Naked Souls Coyotes Drainface Natural Information The Horse...
HAVE A COPY SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR HOME Joni Mitchell, Suede, Bonny Light Horseman, Small Faces, Khruangbin, Deniece Williams, Greg Dulli, The Fall, Karl Bartos, Jake Blount and Clare Grogan all feature in the new Uncut, dated October 2022 and in UK shops from August 18 or available to buy online now. This issue comes with an exclusive free 15-track CD of the month’s best new music. JONI MITCHELL: When you’ve released a generation-defining masterpiece, as Joni Mitchell did with Blue, what exactly do you do for an encore? In Mitchell’s case, embark upon an extraordinary run of albums – For The...
Originally published in Uncut’s July 2022 issue Pioneering producer, songwriter, dubmaster and now MBE, Dennis Bovell has been busy as ever as he heads towards his eighth decade. In the last year alone, there have been ongoing dub reimaginings for the likes of Animal Collective and The Smile, various archival and new Bandcamp releases, and Y In Dub, a new version of The Pop Group’s seminal Bovell-produced debut. “I got to get back into those tracks and marvel at the sounds I’d put down on the tape,” he explains of the latter. “They’re mad about dubbing, Mark Stewart especially,...