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Watch Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band cover The Pogues’ “A Rainy Night in Soho” in Kilkenny

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band opened their set last night [May 12, 2024] at Nowlan Park, Kilkenny with a cover of The Pogues‘ “A Rainy Night in Soho“. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! The performance was in honour of Shane MacGowan, who died on November 30, 2023. Springsteen had previously paid tribute to MacGowan, writing on his website: Over here on E Street, we are heartbroken over the death of Shane MacGowan. Shane was one of my all-time favorite writers. The passion and deep intensity of his music and lyrics is unmatched by all but the very best in the rock and roll canon. I was fortunate to spend a little time with Shane and his lovely wife Victoria the last time we were in Dublin. He was very ill, but still beautifully present in his heart and spirit. His music is timeless and eternal. I don’t know about the rest of us, but they’ll be singing Shane’s songs 100 years from now. Springsteen and the E Street Band’s next show is on May 16 at Cork’s Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

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Watch the Rolling Stones cover Bob Dylan’s “Like A Rolling Stone” in Las Vegas

The Rolling Stones covered Bob Dylan‘s “Like A Rolling Stone” on Saturday [May 11, 2024] at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! Watch the footage below. The Stones are currently on their Hackney Diamonds tour, which began on April 28, 2024 at NRG Stadium, Houston. Read Uncut’s review of the Huston show here. “We didn’t write this song,” said Mick Jagger by way of introducing their Dylan cover. “This was specially written for us by a Nobel Prize laureate.” The Stones have often covered “Like A Rolling Stone” in concert, beginning on May 26, 1995 at Amsterdam’s Paradiso Grote Zaal. The Vegas show also saw a number of other tour debuts, including “Let’s Spend The Night Together”, “You Got Me Rocking” and “You Got The Silver”. The Stones’ next show is on May 15 at Seattle’s Lumen Field.

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Jessica Pratt – Here In The Pitch

In 1979, Joan Didion published The White Album, a selection of essays that captured California on the brink of the 1970s, its counterculture dream beginning to curdle. “A demented and seductive vortical tension was building in the community,” as she described it. “The jitters were setting in. I recall a time when the dogs barked every night and the moon was always full.” There is something of Didion’s description in Jessica Pratt’s fourth album, Here In The Pitch. The singer draws on the seedy history of her Los Angeles home, that peculiarly West Coast sense of an American utopia on the turn, to create her finest set of songs to date. Tales of sins and crimes and “evil innocence” lie beneath a musical palette of bossanova and orchestral ’60s pop. Melancholy moves below lustre. Sweetness buries the gloom. Even the album’s title suggests some latent malevolence. The ‘pitch’ in question refers both to absolute darkness and to bitumen; that oily black substance that forms, oozing and ominous, somewhere beneath the earth, and bubbles to the surface in places like LA’s La Brea Tar Pits. Since her self-titled 2012 debut, Pratt has established herself as a near-mystical figure. Her records are… Read More →

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Broadcast – Spell Blanket – Collected Demos 2006-2009

Broadcast always attracted plenty of speculation and intrigue when they were active, but since the death of singer Trish Keenan at the age of 42 in January 2011, the band’s enigma – and reputation – has only grown. Eleven years after their final album – an eccentric soundtrack to Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio, completed by remaining member James Cargill – Broadcast are more popular than ever. Their 750,000 monthly listeners on Spotify hammer the Birmingham group’s first three albums – The Noise Made By People, Haha Sound and Tender Buttons – which Warp have kept repressing since 2015 to meet demand. Walk into any coffee shop in Brooklyn, anecdotal evidence suggests, and there’s an 85 per cent chance they’ll be playing Broadcast. There’s a sense today that Broadcast were on the cusp of further greatness at the time of Keenan’s passing, though it’s easy, with hindsight, to ascribe momentum to a career cut short. In fact, back then the group were deep in the midst of their most experimental phase when Keenan died from pneumonia after contracting swine flu at the end of a tour of Australia. By that point, Broadcast had become the kind of cult act they… Read More →

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End Of The Road Festival 2024 day splits revealed!

The day splits have been announced for this year’s End Of The Road Festival, which runs from August 29 – September 1 at Wiltshire’s Larmer Tree Gardens. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Richard Dawson will kick things off on Thursday, while IDLES return to Larmer Tree Gardens this time taking the billing reins on Friday. They top a supporting bill including Sleater-Kinney and Baxter Dury as well as Garden Stage headliners Lankum and Mdou Moctar. Saturday is topped by Slowdive who will follow Jockstrap. Richard Hawley, Phosphorescent and Camera Obscura grace the Garden Stage, Fever Ray will bring the Woods Stage to a close on Sunday, with strong support from Altin Gün and the Big Top is closed by Cornelius. In the Garden, there’ll be the welcome return of Yo La Tengo and Ty Segall. We’re proud to once again be partnering with End Of The Road for what promises to be a brilliant festival. We’ll also be bringing you our usual on-site Q&As from the Talking Heads stage. More on those soon… You can read Uncut’s ultimate End Of The Road round-up from last year’s festival here.

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Introducing…Pink Floyd: A Life In Pictures

Set the controls for our new issue! As much as they were about unbelievable music, Pink Floyd were about incredible images. When the band played their first official gig at All Saints Hall in London in 1966, they did so accompanied by a phenomenon as new as their own ever-extending R&B: a light show. With that event begins the relationship between sound and vision you’ll see unfold before you in this lavish new magazine. Accompanied by eyewitness recollection – Floyd’s Nick Mason is a key player here – Pink Floyd: A Life In Pictures follows the band on their unlikely journey from paisley shirted improvisers to feuding multimillionaires, each with their own take on the band’s legacy. Advertisement In between, they’ve been pop stars, film composers, and commissioners of large inflatable objects – and images have always been key to the Floyd experience. When their songwriter/frontman Syd Barrett was unable to continue with the group in 1968 it required them to think urgently about a creative emergency in their music. But for all the larks depicted here, it would be wrong to think that this was a group ever completely at ease in the spotlight. At the start of their… Read More →

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Introducing the latest Ultimate Music Guide: Black Sabbath

Our latest Deluxe, 148-page edition It is, the internet tells me, shortly after Christmas 1987, and a few friends and I are huddled in a chilly corner of a pub in London’s Soho. We are here for various reasons. For one, we know that they serve pints of bitter even to self-evidently underage customers like us. For another, hard rock lore suggests that this is a spot we might run into Lemmy – surely an encounter to delight all parties equally. The main reason we’re there, though, is to find consolation after grave disappointment. We have failed to phone ahead before travelling from the provinces, and so have only within the last hour learned that the Black Sabbath show at Hammersmith Odeon we hoped to witness this evening has been cancelled. As you’ll read in this new 148-page deluxe edition of our Ultimate Music Guide to Black Sabbath, we certainly weren’t the only people to have been wrongfooted by Black Sabbath in the 1980s. In a new interview for the magazine, Tony Iommi launches a new box set which attempts to find some continuity in this era of the band, and explains some of what was going on in an… Read More →

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Drive-By Truckers announce Southern Rock Opera deluxe edition

Drive-By Truckers will release a deluxe edition of their 2001 album, Southern Rock Opera. An expanded new 3xLP edition is released via New West Records on Friday, July 26. Pre-orders are available now. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! Advertisement For this deluxe edition, the double album has been remixed, remastered and re-sequenced to include a third LP featuring two sides of additional studio material and live recordings. The supplemental LP comprises Side A – Betamax Guillotine, featuring three songs recommended to play between the original album’s Acts I & II including the previously unreleased “Mystery Song”. The third disc’s Side B – Live In Atlanta (2001) collects four tracks recorded November 24, 2001, at The Earl in Atlanta, GA during the Southern Rock Opera Tour, including the unreleased bonus track, “Don’t Cockblock the Rock”. Advertisement Southern Rock Opera – Deluxe is housed in a foil-stamped rigid slipcase with the original album packaged as a 2xLP set in gatefold and supplemental LP packaged in a separate jacket. The deluxe edition also includes a perfect-bound 28-page book with never-before-seen photos and expanded liner notes by Patterson Hood. The tracklisting for Southern Rock Opera – Deluxe is: ACT I SIDE… Read More →

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Michael Lindsay-Hogg interviewed: “Let It Be was misunderstood”

With The Beatles’ Let It Be back on our screens – at last! – after an absence of over 50 years, director Michael Lindsay-Hogg talks to Uncut about his memories of the original shoot, earlier attempts to bring it back into circulation and it’s relationship to Peter Jackson’s Get Back… ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! “I feel so pleased it is coming out again. It has been 50 years and thank God some of the principles are still alive, including me. Peter Jackson’s Get Back was very influential in getting Let It Be reissued because Peter always saw Let It Be as the cherry on top of the cake. He thought it needed to be seen to complete the Beatles experience of that particular time. Advertisement “When the film originally came out, it was collateral damage from the Beatles breaking up. When we shot the movie, edited the movie, made the rough cut and the final cut, there were four Beatles. We screened the movie to the band, and then we all went for a fancy dinner. There was a discotheque and we all went down and… Read More →

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Watch the trailer for blur: To The End documentary

A new documentary blur: To The End is coming to screens in the UK and Ireland on July 19. You can watch the trailer below. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! The documentary follows Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree as they came together in early 2023 to record the songs that became their The Ballad of Darren album, ahead of their first ever shows at London’s Wembley Stadium in July last summer. Advertisement [embedded content] The film is directed by Toby L and produced by Josh Connolly, via production house Up The Game. Speaking in the film, Alex James said – “We’ve barely communicated for the last 10 years… I mean even when we really split up, it didn’t take this long to make a record, but what’s wonderful is as soon as the four of us get in a room together, it’s just exactly the same as it was when we were all 19….” With Graham Coxon adding – “With each other… In the nineties, it was a very intense time. On the same sort of level as a relationship, or marriages and things like that. I think it’s okay to say… Read More →

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David Gilmour interviewed: “There was no pious false respect”

David Gilmour returns with Luck and Strange, his first studio album for nine years. In this extract from Uncut’s world exclusive cover feature, Gilmour, his wife and collaborator Polly Samson, bass player Guy Pratt and producer Charlie Andrew reflect on the genesis of his new album… “Have you checked your Instagram recently?” said the message from Charlie Andrew’s manager last summer. The 42 year-old producer duly logged into the app and waiting for him was a message which said, “Hi, David Gilmour here, please give me a call.” The preceding six months had seen Gilmour and Polly Samson re-emerge carefully from their post-lockdown bubble. Weekdays were spent in a London flat they bought for the specific purpose of working in anonymity. On one floor, Gilmour growing fragments into songs with melody lines he then handed over to Samson. Cold water dips, morning walks and a record label oblivious to their industries. No pressure. And bookending the working week on their drive to and from Sussex, they listened to albums helmed by producers who may have what it takes to turn these new songs into an album. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE… Read More →

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Watch Bruce Springsteen debut “If I Was The Priest” live in Europe

Bruce Springsteen debuted “If I Was The Priest” in Europe on May 5, 2024 at the Principality Stadium, Cardiff, Wales. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! The song dates back to Springsteen’s singer-songwriter days in the early ’70s. Springsteen performed it during his audition for John Hammond, who signed him to Columbia Records in 1972. Advertisement The song was eventually recorded and released in 2020 for Springsteen and The E Street Band’s Letter To You album. Otherwise unperformed publicly since 1972, it appeared on the setlist on February 14, 2023 at the Toyota Center, Houston, Texas. Springsteen performed it again on two more occasions that month. Watch the Cardiff performance below. Advertisement [embedded content] The setlist for the the Principality Stadium, Cardiff, Wales was: So Young And In Love Lonesome Day No Surrender Prove It All Night Darlington County Ghosts Better Days The Promised Land Spirit In The Night Hungry Heart If I Was The Priest My City Of Ruins Nightshift The River Last Man Standing Backstreets Because The Night She’s The One Wrecking Ball The Rising Badlands Thunder Road Encore Born In The U.S.A Born To Run Bobby Jean… Read More →

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LADIPOE Stays Grounded with Uplifting Anthem “Hallelujah”

Nigerian rapper LADIPOE, known for his sharp wordplay and infectious flow, returns with a reflective and motivating new single, “Hallelujah.” This isn’t just another braggadocious rap track. “Hallelujah” delves into LADIPOE‘s journey from hustling newcomer to established artist, navigating the challenges and temptations that come with success. The song opens with a declaration of purpose: “Nothing now wey go kill my vibe / All I need is that peace of mind” (Nothing will kill my vibe, all I need is peace of mind). The lyrics paint a picture of loyalty and perseverance, highlighting the importance of close friends (“All my guys I carry for mind / Do me well I got you for life”) and unwavering support (“My man fall I go stand beside”). Despite the newfound fame, LADIPOE acknowledges the complexities of success. Lines like “This no be lifestyle na religion / I no know when Hennessy start to ginger my decisions” (This lifestyle isn’t a religion, I don’t know when Hennessy started influencing my decisions) explore the potential pitfalls of wealth and recognition. The chorus, “Hallelujah / Sitting in the lungu screaming Hallelujah” (Hallelujah, sitting in the car screaming Hallelujah) is a powerful statement of gratitude despite the… Read More →

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Mdou Moctar – Funeral For Justice

The politics of this album, rooted in the plight of Niger and the Tuareg people, may be lost via a language barrier, but the intensity that drives it speaks loud and clear. From the opening title track, ferocious guitar and polyrhythmic drumming explode, almost recalling a math rock band in full swing. From here, Moctar and his group blaze their way through an album of emphatic psych-rock. Advertisement However, despite remarkable playing and energy that charges through much of this record, it’s also contemplative, varied and tender at times, with the gentle sway of tracks like “Takoba” hitting as hard as the noise and fury of “Sousoume Tamacheq”. Buyer’s Guide to Mdou Moctar ANAR Advertisement 2008, self-released On Moctar’s laidback debut album his acoustic guitar gifts a soulful humanity to computerised drum beats and robotic auto-tuned vocals, with bewitching, hypnotic results. ILANA (THE CREATOR) 2019, Sahel Sounds Moctar’s first studio album with a backing band brings his raw, ragged electric guitar sound to the fore in a barrage of speaker-melting solos. AFRIQUE VICTIME 2021, Matador The most sonically diverse record in Moctar’s catalogue, Afrique Victime changes gears effortlessly between soul-stirring acoustic blues and full-throated psychedelic rock. FUNERAL FOR JUSTICE 2024, Matador Louder,… Read More →

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St Vincent – All Born Screaming

All Born Screaming introduces a new Annie Clarke, as she discards her icily cerebral persona and becomes nakedly feral. The transition to beast mode happens when second track “Reckless” mutates from genteel to carnivorous with a blitzkrieg of concussive programmed drums and chinking synths. Advertisement Dave Grohl’s massive drums intensify the hard-funk ferocity of “Broken Man” and “Flea” before the LP’s first half climaxes with the Princely strut, “Big Time Nothing”. The vibe becomes lusher as trumpets herald the ’60s film theme vibes of “Violent Times”, lifts off with the massed voices and serrated guitars of “So Many Planets” and climaxes with the title track, a Cate LeBon collaboration that shape-shifts from frisky rave-up to hallucinogenic excursion, as Clarke completes another radical musical/psychological metamorphosis. The Road to All Born Screaming Advertisement STRANGE MERCY (4AD, 2011) Though she was covering Big Black’s “Kerosene” in her live set, there was as yet little of that energy in Annie Clark’s recordings. But her songs were growing darker and more direct: notably on “Cruel”, the video ST VINCENT (Loma Vista, 2014) On her breakthrough album, Annie goes big, goes bold and brings a new pop ambition (“I want all of your mind” she sings… Read More →

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David Gilmour announces new UK live dates

David Gilmour has announced his first live shows in London for eight years, to coincide with his new album, Luck and Strange, which is released by Sony Music on September 6. Gilmour will play London’s Royal Albert Hall on October 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 15. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! Advertisement Fans pre-ordering Luck and Strange from the official David Gilmour store will be able to participate in an exclusive ticket pre-sale on Thursday, May 9. The window to qualify for the pre-sale ends at 3pm BST on Wednesday, May 8, with all existing pre-orders from the official David Gilmour store also eligible. Tickets will then go on general sale from the Albert Hall and on Ticketmaster from 10am BST on Friday, May 10. In a world exclusive interview in this month’s edition of Uncut, Gilmour spoke about his tour plans, telling us there was “an unwillingness to revisit the Pink Floyd of the ‘70s”, but that he would be more likely to perform songs from other decades: “Yeah, they might be better represented. I mean, at least one from the ’60s. The one we’ve… Read More →

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WHITE COLLAR PRISON Takes Aim at Corruption with Infectious Satire in “If It’s Not Too Much Trouble (You’re Going to Jail)”

WHITE COLLAR PRISON ‘s debut single, “If It’s Not Too Much Trouble (You’re Going to Jail),” This isn’t your average protest song; it’s a hilarious and thought-provoking indictment of white-collar crime, delivered with a theatrical flair that’s both catchy and convicting. The song follows the spectacular downfall of Congressman Richard Dutch, a caricature of privilege and corruption. Through a series of cleverly scathing lyrics (“insider trading, fraud and the rest / Plus, all of those damning emails”), the narrative exposes Dutch’s illicit activities, from bribery to embezzlement. The playful banter between characters adds another layer of humor, highlighting the absurdity of Dutch’s desperate attempts to buy his way out of trouble. “We wanted to shine a light on the double standards that often protect white-collar criminals,” explains songwriter Neil Garguilo. “The song uses satire to spark conversations about accountability and the inequalities within the justice system.” The infectious melody and driving rhythm complement the satirical lyrics, creating a juxtaposition that underscores the depth of the song’s social commentary. It’s a demonstration of WHITE COLLAR PRISON‘s talent for weaving social commentary into an undeniably entertaining package. The song isn’t just about pointing fingers; it’s a call to action. This line powerfully… Read More →

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End Of The Road’s comedy and literature line-up revealed

End Of The Road has announced its comedy and literature line-up for this year’s festival, taking place at Larmer Tree Gardens on August 29 to September 1. Comedians Stewart Lee, Josie Long, Janine Harouni, Fern Brady, Ria Lina and Pappy’s are among those making the journey to Dorset this year. On the literature side of things, Richard King will be there to talk about his new Arthur Russell biography Travels Over Feeling, as recently showcased in Uncut. Also discussing their new books will be legendary producer Joe Boyd, and Simon Raymonde of Cocteau Twins and Bella Union fame. See the full comedy and literature line-up below. Last tickets for the festival are available here.

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Hear a remastered version of “Coyote” from Joni Mitchell’s The Asylum Albums (1976-1980)

Joni Mitchell has revealed upcoming plans for her Archives series. It comprises a new boxed set The Asylum Albums (1976-1980), which features newly remastered versions of Hejira (1976), Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter (1977), Mingus (1979) and the live album, Shadows And Light (1980). All four were recently remastered by Bernie Grundman. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! Advertisement The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) will be released on June 21 in 5-CD and 6-LP 180-gram vinyl (a limited edition of 5,000) versions, as well as digitally. These sets are available to order here. Accompanying the set is a heartfelt essay penned by Meryl Streep, a lifelong fan of Mitchell’s work. She writes: “It’s not just the artifact – music and lyrics – that Joni gives us. Her artistry leaves us, ourselves, changed. She has shifted things around inside us. And that’s how artists change the world.” You can hear a remastered version of “Coyote” below. Advertisement [embedded content] As if you need it, the tracklisting for The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) is: Hejira LP One Side One “Coyote” “Amelia” “Furry Sings The Blues” “A Strange Boy” “Hejira Side Two “Song For Sharon” “Black Crow” “Blue… Read More →

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Introducing Can Live 1973 – 1977

All copies of the June 2024 issue of Uncut come with a free CD – Can Live 1973 – 1977 – that brings together music from Can’s indispensable live series. On these five tracks – don’t feel short-changed: the shortest one is over eight minutes long – you’ll find rock’s most forward-thinking band at their most uninhibited… ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! Technology has brought its fair share of good and bad, but one achievement we can certainly chalk up as a positive is the appearance of Can’s series of live albums. Keyboardist Irmin Schmidt has long been in possession of audience recordings from the ’70s, when the Cologne group were operating at their peak, but the quality was always too poor for commercial release. Advertisement “There are now possibilities to improve it in the mastering,” he gleefully told Uncut in 2020. “Documentation of our live appearances is missing from our releases, so I’m quite happy that this gap will be filled.” Indeed, we’re positively delighted to present to you this incredible sampler of the band’s live series so far. The five epic tracks are drawn from 2021’s Live In Stuttgart 1975… Read More →

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Vampire Weekend – Only God Was Above Us

Cleverness gets you only so far in life, and its limits become clearer with age. Vampire Weekend’s first album in roughly five years deals with that kind of reckoning. Its opening line: “Fuck the world” – spoken in context of a lovers’ sparring match, a geo-political negotiation, maybe both. Ezra Koenig’s vocals are dirty with distortion, draped in coiled feedback, and they build to a panic attack of galloping drums, presto orchestral strings and guitar squeals amid talk of soldiers, police, war and weaponised language. The song, “Ice Cream Piano” (note the “I scream” homophone), is bunker-mentality neorealism, and quite a way from the scenes of privileged youth “in the colours of Benetton” on the band’s 2008 debut, blithely spilling kefir on an accessorising keffiyeh and second-guessing last night’s hookup en route to class. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW UNCUT, FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR INTERVIEW AND A FREE CAN CD! Fair enough: Vampire Weekend are nearly 20 years in, and these are dark times. Gone too is the wistfully upbeat jam-band vibe of 2019’s Father Of The Bride, an impressive pivot after the departure of co-founder Rostam Batmanglij, long on laidback guitar spirals, pedal steel sparkles, Danielle Haim… Read More →