Today (July 25) sees the release of the highly anticipated new Nick Drake boxset, The Making Of Five Leaves Left, which tells the story of how his stunning debut album came together across four discs of demos, studio outtakes and previously unheard songs. Here is Uncut’s guide to the most revealing tracks from the new boxset, which shine new light on one of the most mythologised albums of all-time: Advertisement “TIME HAS TOLD ME”(1st SOUND TECHNIQUES, MARCH 1968)Drake’s second ever studio recording fully unpacks the rich voice, complex guitar progressions and mysterious lyrics that will forever characterise him. “STRANGE...
Welcome back my friends… With the best progressive rock albums, you were on pretty safe ground judging the book (actually the record) by its cover. As you’d probably hope, with someone behind so many such covers, the artist Roger Dean has a very good take on how the whole progressive rock album package – the music, the logo, the futuristic icescape on the sleeve – all fitted together. Advertisement In a field so often criticised for excess, Roger sees the offering more in terms of generosity. “What we were doing was making an integrated and holistic gift,” he told...
Electric 5 didn’t just cover Metallica’s “Enter Sandman”—they detonated it, rewired the wreckage, and rebuilt something sharper. Their debut release doesn’t chase novelty, it declares identity. With three electric violins, two electric cellos, zero backing tracks, and an unapologetic sense of purpose, the Chicago-based quintet offers a version of the metal classic that feels at once intimate and immense. There’s something visceral about hearing a track so tied to thrash history rendered with strings that aren’t trying to mimic guitars—they’re reinventing what it means to play with force. This isn’t about gimmick or irony. It’s a high-wire act of...
On September 12, Led Zeppelin will continue to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Physical Graffiti with an updated deluxe vinyl edition of the album, complete with bonus replica promotional poster. Advertisement But perhaps more interestingly, they will also release a new EP featuring four rare live recordings: “In My Time Of Dying” and “Trampled Under Foot” from Earl’s Court, 1975, alongside “Sick Again” and “Kashmir” from Knebworth, 1979. It will be the first time these performances have appeared on CD or vinyl, having only ever been previously released on the 2003 Led Zeppelin DVD. Watch the video for “Trampled...
Paul Weller is the star of our latest free CD, Movin On, available with the September 2025 issue of Uncut, in shops now. The 10-track album includes rarities, deep cuts and B-sides, including blistering six-minute closer “I Work In The Clouds”. Advertisement There have been few artists who have had a career quite like Weller’s – not least in his stunning move into kaleidoscopic experimentation in his middle age. After last year’s impressive 66, he’s now returned with Find El Dorado, a covers album that’s much more than that: a “deeply personal new album of reinterpretations”, it shines a...
Rising Hip Hop and R&B artist Power Jackson has released a new single titled “Keep You Safe,” offering listeners a stripped-back and emotionally resonant look into love, trust, and vulnerability. The track dropped across streaming platforms earlier this week, quietly making its way onto the radar of fans of alternative R&B and minimalist soul. Built around a repetitive, hypnotic vocal hook—“You know I love you bae / You know I’ll keep you safe”—the song doubles down on intimacy rather than grandeur. Clocking in at just over two minutes, it blends ambient textures with unfiltered vocals, creating an atmosphere that...
15 months before they were invited to join Fleetwood Mac on New Year’s Eve 1974, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks released the duo album Buckingham Nicks. Advertisement Although it was a commercial flop, the song “Frozen Love” persuaded Mick Fleetwood to get in touch, and the rest is history. Yet despite Buckingham Nicks’ burgeoning reputation as a cult classic, the album has never been officially reissued, until now. “ knew what we had as a duo, two songwriters that sang really well together. And it was a very natural thing, from the beginning,” recalls Stevie Nicks, in the new...
The last time Kendrick Lamar was in London – back in 2022 with The Big Steppers Tour – he came on like no one so much as David Bowie in his Thin White Duke era, bringing a stark, expressionist theatre of ego to the soulless bowl of the O2. It was a fabulous display of force and control, but it left you wondering whether he was ready to evolve – to create a show that seduced as much as it impressed, and to prove he truly was a bona fide 21st-century superstar. Advertisement Tonight, as blowtorches send blue smoke...
Johnny Marr has announced that he’ll release a new 22-track live album via BMG on September 19. Advertisement Look Out Live! was recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2024 during his Spirit Power tour. A special guest that night was Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant, and you can hear their versions of Electronic’s “Getting Away With It” (Tennant’s first collaboration with Marr back in 1989) and David Bowie’s “Rebel Rebel” below: Look Out Live! is available on limited edition orange double vinyl (previously only available in indie stores as a Record Store Day exclusive release), on...
To celebrate the incredible life and reassuringly heavy music of Ozzy Osbourne, we revisit a classic Black Sabbath interview from the July 2014 issue of Uncut (Take 206). Riding high on the success of their chart-topping reunion album 13, Ozzy, Tommy and Geezer took us through the formidable Sabbath cannon, album-by-album. Ozzy Osbourne is in high spirits as he calls from Los Angeles. “I’m having the time of my life,” he says, revelling in the success that has greeted the reformation of the classic Black Sabbath lineup for a new album and tour. “We’re having a fucking blast,” he...