The smooth piano start with Deemun’s sultry vocals will have you hooked. The track titled “Getting Started” is a gorgeous, shimmering piece of dreamy rap where synths twinkle like stars in the night sky. The vocals are exhausted yet relaxed, and the melodies drift into simple tranquility. Follow Deemun on Instagram and Spotify. The lyrics suggest a peaceful and calm gathering of thoughts. Towards the middle of the track, the bridge picks up the tempo and rhythms begin to flow vigorously, before calming back down once more. The song was also released with an exciting music video.
While others used lockdown 2020 to learn baking, sewing or foreign languages, Terry Hall spent it pursuing more esoteric interests. In a year of plague and paranoia, Hall began collecting protest songs. He started emailing back and forth with Horace Panter and Lynval Golding, his fellow Specials, who were locked down in Warwickshire and Seattle respectively. By last summer, the trio had come up with a long list of around 50 songs. ORDER NOW: Read the full interview in the October 2021 issue of Uncut “Protest has been such a key word in the last two years,” says Hall from...
Steve Gunn likes to paint a beautiful picture, then scribble all over it. Fulton, the second song on his new album Other You, opens with stray piano notes and organ chords twined around a striding guitar strum, as Gunn muses on finding calm and stillness. “The night felt so quiet, listening to the silence,” he sings, then the electric guitar rampages into the song, thick and staticky and tangled, intruding on Gunn’s contemplation and lingering on the fringes of the song like a gremlin in the works. The solo doesn’t quite fit the mood or the sound of the...
There are two ways of looking at this incomplete history of Roddy Frame’s time in Aztec Camera. You can gaze at the contents – everything except for the band’s two Postcard Records singles and then High Land, Hard Rain, the album that established Frame as one of the greatest songwriters of his generation – and come to the conclusion that a career-spanning boxset without High Land, Hard Rain is like, say, a Velvet Underground boxset without a banana. But, without that record, Backwards & Forwards – The WEA Recordings 1984-1995 tells an equally fascinating tale. ORDER NOW: Nick Cave is...
On 15 August 1970, The Beach Boys repaired to Brian Wilson’s house in Bel-Air, setting up in the studio downstairs. Sunflower, their new album, was due out in a fortnight, but the band were already sketching ideas for a follow-up. Wilson laid down a basic track for “Til I Die, a song he’d been struggling with for some time but was yet to perfect. Mike Love, meanwhile, unveiled the quietly rapturous Big Sur. ORDER NOW: Nick Cave is on the cover of the October 2021 issue of Uncut Trailed this June ahead of Feel Flows – a major compilation centred...
Shannon And The Clams are part of a decades-long tradition of musicians who have channelled bygone sounds and imagery for new audiences. The best of these acts don’t engage in rote resuscitation or simple tributes. Instead, they bring a rough-hewn edge, a wild experimental spirit or – crucially – both of those things to the act of revivalism. Amy Winehouse, The White Stripes and The Black Keys may be the most visible examples, but bands like Shannon & The Clams, and The Detroit Cobras before them, offer an equally rich and punchy take on tradition – with gale-force women...
The Bad Seeds are scattered. Past and present members – along with their leader, Nick Cave – are in different corners of the world: Brighton, Greece, Melbourne, Berlin and London. They are spending the summer apart, but have come together – remotely, at least – to talk exclusively to Uncut about new Bad Seeds songs gathered up on B-Sides & Rarities Part II. Along with a clutch of rare tracks, this unreleased music, recorded between 2007 and 2019, presents Nick Cave unedited and unfiltered: the first take of the shadow king. ORDER NOW: Read the full interview with Nick...
EnkiiE has kept himself busy with 3 tracks already out making waves. His latest release “Sky” is already smashing. His previous single “What I Can” from the album On My Time, pushed from 48K to 61K streams on Spotify. He already has 2 albums out, Station Tapes 432Hz and On My Time, garnering him much acclaim. The talented artist reveals his new sound with massive rolling melodies and irresistible lyrics. His vocals combine style with an already influential character. Listen to “Sky” below.
Had everything gone as planned, Jay Farrar might still be looking back rather than forwards. Last year marked 25 years since Trace, his debut album as leader of Son Volt, the band he founded after the demise of alt.country avatars Uncle Tupelo. But global events meant that the anniversary tour never happened, forcing the singer and guitarist to hole up and contemplate an uncertain future instead. ORDER NOW: Nick Cave is on the cover of the October 2021 issue of Uncut The upshot of his new labour is Electro Melodier, a rich, impassioned set of songs that essay a global...
In a 2019 interview, the singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka credits his producer and main collaborator Inflo for giving him the confidence to appear on camera. “I was always terrified of pushing myself and appearing in videos,” says Kiwanuka. “But Inflo told me how important it was for fans to see the artist they’re listening to. It helps them connect.” ORDER NOW: Nick Cave is on the cover of the October 2021 issue of Uncut Would that Inflo took his own advice. Inflo is a producer and multi-instrumentalist based in London, whose real name (according to his label’s listing at Companies House)...