Hit Singles
Alex Jay Pumps It Up With “L.O.L (Love or Lust)”
After his first debut release, “I’m In Love With Your Crazy Acapella,” Alex Jay is laying it on thick with his second song. Titled “L.O.L (Love or Lust),” this one is for the dancefloor. It presents pumping kicks and biting lyrics. The track stands high with 44K streams on Spotify. With its moody and upbeat flare, the new track is welcoming fans of many genres.Follow Alex Jay on Instagram.
Kacey Musgraves on writing new album Star-crossed: “You aren’t owed a visit by the muse. She can visit or not visit”
Two days before she entered the studio to record her new album, Kacey Musgraves drove to a house outside Nashville, put on a blindfold and took a dose of psilocybin mushrooms. Her only sensory stimulation was a special playlist curated by neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins University to trigger different emotions and guide the listener through the journey. “Music has never sounded so good than it did when I was in that state,” she says. “You notice every nuance of every note. You react viscerally to it. And that served as a lot of the inspiration for the new record.”...
Hear Johnny Marr’s new single, “Spirit, Power And Soul”
Johnny Marr returns with new music. “Spirit, Power And Soul” is the first taster from his forthcoming double album and fourth solo full length record, titled Fever Dreams Pts 1-4. ORDER NOW: Nick Cave is on the cover of the October 2021 issue of Uncut “Spirit, Power And Soul is a kind of mission statement,” says Marr. “I had an idea about an electro sound with gospel feeling, in my own words… an electro soul anthem.” Advertisement The Fever Dreams Pt 1 EP will be released digitally, and on limited edition 12” silver vinyl via BMG from October 15th. Pre-order...
Mad Professor pays tribute to friend and longtime collaborator Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry
Mad Professor, a longtime friend and collaborator of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, has penned a touching tribute to the late dub visionary. READ MORE: “People think I’m mad…” An encounter with Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry Following news of Perry’s death, Mad Professor, who recorded prolifically with the producer over the past 30 years, took to social media to pay tribute to his friend. “The end of an era! We first worked in the early ’80s, recording several tracks and doing tours, having many laughs, sharing many dreams… we spoke together with his wife a week ago…,” the British-Guyanese producer wrote. Advertisement...
Deemun Is “Getting Started” With New Song
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.
The Specials on assembling Protest Songs 1924 2012: “All we can do is try and raise awareness. That’s our role”
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 Other You
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...
Aztec Camera Backwards & Forwards: The WEA Recordings 1984-1995
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...
The Beach Boys Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Sessions
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...Recent Posts
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