After 2010’s The Age Of Adz, on which Sufjan Stevens ditched his signature indie-folk banjo and recorders for glitchy beatscapes and experimental pop, Carrie & Lowell landed as a hushed and heartbreakingly raw excavation of the darkness that enveloped him following his mother Carrie’s death in 2012. Its songs, attempts to make sense of her troubled life and their relationship, are among the most forlorn in his catalogue. They’re also some of the loveliest. THE JULY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING NICK DRAKE, A 15-TRACK NEW MUSIC CD, THE WHO, BLACK SABBATH, BRIAN ENO,...
Do you remember the first time? Isn’t that the question that’s implied in every reunion tour, comeback album or immersive holographic experience? This summer you have the opportunity to see Oasis, AC/DC, ELO and 5ive for maybe the last time, each offering the promise that they’ll recapture something of their elusive 20th-century magic and the slim chance they might transport you fleetingly back to your long lost youth. THE JULY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING NICK DRAKE, A 15-TRACK NEW MUSIC CD, THE WHO, BLACK SABBATH, BRIAN ENO, MATT BERNINGER, PULP, BOB WEIR AND...
Big Thief have announced that their sixth studio album, Double Infinity, will be released by 4AD on September 5. Listen to first single and album opener “Incomprehensible” below: Advertisement Double Infinity was recorded last winter at the Power Station, New York City, by Dom Monks. Guest musicians on the record include Alena Spanger, Caleb Michel, Hannah Cohen, Jon Nellen, Joshua Crumbly, June McDoom, Laraaji, Mikel Patrick Avery and Mikey Buishas. The album will be released digitally and on cassette, CD, and standard black vinyl. Limited green and ‘Sparkle’ vinyl editions will be available via indie retailers and Big Thief/4AD webstores respectively. Check...
Just about everybody who’s been to a Bruce Springsteen show has a story, and Hazel Wilkinson’s is particularly lovely one. She was a teenager when her brother queued all night for tickets to see Springsteen and the E Street Band at Manchester Apollo in May 1981, on the European leg of the River tour. They were at the front of the stalls when, two songs into the second half, Bruce sang “Sherry Darling”. During the saxophone solo he peered down at Hazel, called her up, and danced across the stage with her for a minute or two. THE JULY...
“I’m not sure we should have agreed to this,” Stephen Malkmus muses during the extraordinary new documentary Pavements. “Has there ever been a good movie about a rock band?” There certainly hasn’t been a rock doc like this one, which eschews convention at every stage in favour of meta-realities and roleplay, echoing the band’s own approach on albums like Wowee Zowee. “It’s a sprawling record with lots of different ideas positioning for your attention,” explains guitarist Scott ‘Spiral Stairs’ Kannberg. “The movie is sort of like that. Here’s this band… and what’s real and what’s not?” THE JULY 2025...
The ability to draw out the extraordinary from the everyday is one evergreen hallmark of engaging songwriting. Robert Forster has been sketching self-contained emotional vignettes and spinning semi-autobiographical yarns since his days in The Go-Betweens, the Antipodean high-water mark of guitar jangle. On his ninth solo album, Strawberries, Forster once again knits together the ordinary and the remarkable, furring the edges with a craftsman’s dexterity. THE JULY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING NICK DRAKE, A 15-TRACK NEW MUSIC CD, THE WHO, BLACK SABBATH, BRIAN ENO, MATT BERNINGER, PULP, BOB WEIR AND MORE Advertisement Take...
To celebrate reclaiming full ownership of his back catalogue – as well as his 80th birthday yesterday, and his upcoming Glastonbury appearance – John Fogerty has announced Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years, an album of classic Creedence songs, re-recorded with backing from his sons Shane and Tyler Fogerty. Advertisement Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years will be released by Concord on August 22. Listen to “Up Around The Bend,” “Have You Ever Seen The Rain” and “Porterville” now: “For most of my life I did not own the songs I had written,” says Fogerty. “Getting them back changes everything....
“I can please myself with the things that I seek out,” declared Alan Sparhawk on “Station”, from last year’s extraordinary White Roses, My God. It read like creative self-affirmation with a note of shock, as he moved forward in the wake of Mimi Parker’s death and the resulting end of Low. In recent years those “things” he’s been seeking have included laid-back funk (as played with his son Cyrus, in Derecho Rhythm Section), mutant electro-funk (in the quartet Damien, also with Cyrus) and doom-sludge riffery (with Feast Of Lanterns). Now, a record from a very different collaborative beast, with...
Alan Sparhawk, Matt Berninger, Nathan Salzburg, Witch, Peggy Seeger and more feature on our latest free Uncut CD. The 15-track compilation, titled The New Sounds, showcases some of the month’s best music and comes with the Uncut dated July 2025. Advertisement See below for more on the tracklisting… ORDER A COPY FROM US HERE 1 Alan SparhawkNot BrokenWe open with a mighty cut from Sparhawk’s second post-Low album, With Trampled By Turtles. Stately, poised and still earthy, it can’t help but recall his beloved former band, especially when his and Mimi Parker’s daughter Hollis chimes in on vocals.. Advertisement 2 BC CamplightWhere You Taking My Baby?Brian...
The latest issue of our archival magazine. This month, it’s 1969… Advertisement A word much in use this year is “heavy”. It might apply to the weight of your take on the blues, as with Fleetwood Mac or Led Zeppelin. It might mean the originality of Jethro Tull or King Crimson. It might equally apply to an individual – to Eric Clapton, for example the Beatles are the saints of the 1960s, and George Harrison an especially “heavy person”. This year heavy people flock together. Clapton and Steve Winwood join up in Blind Faith. Steve Marriott and Pete Frampton...
